The trick: Scope Swap
The headline says an AI startup hacked Anthropic in 12 hours.
It was a test under Anthropic's own programme for outside researchers, through third-party sales and admin software.
India Today's headline says an AI startup hacked Anthropic in 12 hours, gaining employee details and internal messages.
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12 hours
The access happened in a test under Anthropic's programme for outside researchers, through third-party business software.
The twist
Anthropic confirms a limited set of systems were reached, and says Claude chats, source code and model weights were not.
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The trick has a name
We call it Scope Swap: applies to far less than it sounds like. You'll see it again. Learn to spot it →
Receipts
- Supports indiatoday.in:
A cybersecurity startup called Cathedral gained access to sensitive internal systems at Anthropic in less than 12 hours
- Context indiatoday.in:
The incident was discovered during a security test conducted under Anthropic's programme for outside researchers to identify vulnerabilities.
- Refutes indiatoday.in:
Anthropic confirmed that the researchers accessed a limited set of its sales, human resources and IT systems.
- Supports indiatoday.in:
“This is a really hard problem, but Anthropic could have done a lot better,” Stamos said.
- Refutes decrypt.co:
The way in was not Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant, but third-party administrative and sales software
- Refutes decrypt.co:
Customer conversations with Claude, source code and model weights, the billions of numbers that make up the trained AI, were not accessed, Anthropic said.
- Context decrypt.co:
The startup raised $160 million at a $1.4 billion valuation in July.
- Context cellcog.ai:
They disagree on how far it went, what it means, and whether Cathedral kept to the rules of the bug bounty program it tested under.
- Supports indiatoday.in:
AI startup hacks Anthropic in 12 hours, gains access to employee details and internal messages
- Supports indiatoday.in:
exposing employee information, salary details, job offers and internal messages
- Context indiatoday.in:
develops AI-powered cybersecurity tools for government agencies and corporate clients
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