Sources: an Accenture staffer's Claude agent ran on a DOD network for two months and appears to have sent info to a third-party site before it was identified
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Sources tell WIRED that an Accenture employee's personal Claude agent ran on a DOD network for two months before it was identified and the vulnerability could be patched.
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