Anthropic warns users after hackers steal Claude tokens
A Claude user noticed his account was consuming tokens while he was not working. Anthropic has since warned users about hackers stealing tokens from subscribers.
First seen 8 Sep, 21:10 UTC on TechCrunch4 sourcesLast update 13d ago
AnthropicIncident · 8 Sep
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What the sources say
Linked, never rewritten. Official means the lab itself.
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TechCrunch· 8 Sep, 21:10Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribersTechCrunch· 10 Sep, 20:57Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeekArs Technica· 11 Sep, 13:02Claude users found ways around safeguards for bioweapons researchThe Decoder· 11 Sep, 13:50How hackers used Claude for missiles, drone swarms, and surveillance, while Chinese labs mined it for training dataCommunity0
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8 Sep 21:10TechCrunch Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers10 Sep 20:57TechCrunch Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek11 Sep 13:02Ars Technica Claude users found ways around safeguards for bioweapons research11 Sep 13:50The Decoder How hackers used Claude for missiles, drone swarms, and surveillance, while Chinese labs mined it for training data