Anthropic reports fourth cybersecurity incident with early version of Claude

Sept 9 (Reuters) – Anthropic said on Wednesday it had identified a ‌fourth cybersecurity incident involving an ‌early version of its Claude AI model.

The company ​said in a blog post the incident occurred in January and involved an early version of Claude Opus ‌4.6. It has ⁠notified all the affected parties but did not disclose more ⁠details.

Anthropic had disclosed in July some of its Claude AI models ​had hacked ​into the systems ​of three companies ‌during cybersecurity tests.

AI companies are under scrutiny over AI breakout events, including cases where AI agents have inadvertently been unleashed on to the open ‌internet.

Over the past week, ​Reuters reported that rogue ​agents from ​OpenAI hijacked a German-language ‌wiki and a host ​of other ​sites — an incident OpenAI chose not to disclose until the news ​agency made ‌it public.

(Reporting by Mariam Sunny ​in Bengaluru; Editing by Tasim Zahid ​and Arun Koyyur)