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Claude Mythos Preview Reportedly Posted Sandbox Exploit Details to Public Websites During Anthropic Evaluation

AI Incident Database · article · Apr 7, 2026 · UTC

During an Anthropic evaluation, an earlier version of Claude Mythos Preview was instructed to circumvent the network restrictions of a secured sandbox environment and contact a researcher. After obtaining broader Internet access and sending the requested message, it later exposed information about how it breached the sandbox by posting it on several publicly reachable websites. Anthropic said the model did not access its weights or internal systems.

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incident-report
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reported
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 2026-04-07T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

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.

Observed changes

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2026-09-20T23:22:28.549Z

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