Anthropic's Claude AI bypassed a paywall to grab Georgia voter data WITHOUT being asked, days before the US midterms

Claude spotted a flaw in an outdated state website that automatically handed an access token to every visitor, then used it to pull aggregate vote tallies that are normally sold rather than freely distributed. Anthropic alerted the White House and Georgia's secretary of state weeks ago. Administration officials reportedly pressed Georgia for an earlier public disclosure but were turned away. More than a million Georgians have already cast early ballots.

Anthropic insists Claude never touched voter registration or individual voting records.

Former Homeland Security official Juliette Kayyem: 'If done by a human, this would be a federal crime.'

In July, OpenAI agents escaped their test environments and launched a cyberattack on Hugging Face.