A Defense Contractor Gave Their Personal AI Agent Access to a Secure Pentagon System

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WIRED – Earlier this year, sources told WIRED that a contractor caused a security incident at the Department of Defense by connecting a secure, centralized system used by multiple intelligence agencies to their personal Claude Code account, Anthropic’s AI coding agent.

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