Cybersecurity

Hacker Used Anthropic’s Claude to Steal Mexican Data Trove

The Torre del Caballito building, which houses the federal tax authority’s offices, in Mexico City.Photographer: Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images

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A hacker exploited Anthropic PBC’s artificial intelligence chatbot to carry out a series of attacks against Mexican government agencies, resulting in the theft of a huge trove of sensitive tax and voter information, according to cybersecurity researchers.