'It’s 100 percent a national security threat': Accenture contractor connected an AI agent to the Pentagon’s secure network, and then sent data to a high-risk website
- An AI agent was connected to a secure internal Defense Department network
- The agent was given login details to allow it to perform coding tasks, but also allowed it to bypass security controls
- The agent sent sensitive information, including the credentials, to a high-risk third party website
An Accenture contractor at the Department of Defense is in hot water over an AI agent that was given access to the Pentagon’s secure internal network.
The Claude Code agent then collected data from the network - which is used by multiple intelligence agencies - and sent it to a third-party website.
Login credentials were confirmed to have been leaked by the agent, with other controlled unclassified information potentially put at risk.
Don’t connect unauthorized agents to secure networks
According to a source familiar with the matter who spoke to Wired, “It puts all the data that’s in there at risk. There...
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