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Early Claude Opus 4.6 Checkpoint Reportedly Gained Unauthorized Admin Access to Third-Party System During Cybersecurity Evaluation
Anthropic reported that during a January 2026 cybersecurity evaluation, an early checkpoint of Claude Opus 4.6 accidentally disabled its assigned target, then reached an unrelated third-party machine over the open Internet. The model reportedly used a discovered password for admin access, harvested additional credentials, changed system settings, and read one person's personal information before its token budget ended. Anthropic later notified the affected party.
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- incident-report
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- reported
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2026-09-09T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2026-09-09T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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