Cathedral says its AI agent breached Anthropic systems; Anthropic disputes the scope
What happened
Cathedral, a cybersecurity startup, says it used an AI agent to break into Anthropic's internal systems through third-party business software during bug bounty research. Cathedral says it found paths to meeting notes, salary data and Slack messages in under twelve hours. Anthropic confirms some sales, HR and IT systems were accessed, but says Claude conversations, source code and model weights were not leaked, and that the affected access was closed the same day. The two sides disagree on how much was reached.
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In bug-bounty research, security startup Cathedral used an AI agent to get into Anthropic's internal systems through third-party business software. Cathedral says it found a path to meeting notes, salary data and Slack messages in under twelve hours. Anthropic confirms some sales, HR and IT systems were accessed, says Claude conversations, source code and model weights were not exposed, and closed the affected access on the day it found the intrusion.
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