Former DOGE staffers say they just hacked Anthropic in less than 12 hours
Cathedral, an AI-driven cybersecurity firm led by former Department of Government Efficiency members, publicly disclosed that it penetrated Anthropic's internal infrastructure including meeting transcripts, salary data, and Slack messages. The firm claims the breach occurred in under 12 hours through weaknesses in standard business software used across many organizations. The incident qualifies as authorized security testing under Anthropic's bug-bounty-like program. Anthropic acknowledged the limited access and remediated the vulnerabilities.
Key points
- Cathedral exploited common enterprise software vulnerabilities to access Anthropic's internal data
- The breach included meeting transcripts, salary information, and internal Slack communications
- This was a sanctioned white-hat security test under Anthropic's external testing program
- Cathedral raised $160M in July at a $1.4B valuation from top-tier VCs
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