Vittoria Elliott reports: Earlier this year, sources tell WIRED, a contractor caused a security incident at the Department of Defense by connecting a secure centralized system used by multiple intelligence agencies to their personal account for Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding agent. It appears that the agent used by the contractor, who is employed by...
A Defense Contractor Gave Their Personal AI Agent Access to a Secure Pentagon System
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