AI startup claims it hacked Anthropic in 12 hours, gains access to employee details and internal messages
- AI startup Cathedral used autonomous agents to breach Anthropic systems through weaknesses in third-party software
- Agents accessed HR, sales, and IT data, exposing limited customer and partner information
- Incident highlights how AI-powered attackers can rapidly exploit vendor weaknesses despite strong internal defenses
An AI startup seemingly gave Anthropic a taste of its own medicine when it used AI agents to break into the company and expose sensitive data.
The company in question is called Cathedral, which was founded by former members of the defunct US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a US government initiative established to reduce federal spending and bureaucracy, while modernizing government technology and operations.
Anthropic is running a two-fold bug bounty program through HackerOne. One part is focused on finding technical flaws in Anthropic’s systems, while the other is an invite-only program that rewards researchers for finding universal jailbreaks that bypass Claude’s safety protections.
Cathedral apparently shared...
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