Hacker used Anthropic's Claude chatbot to attack multiple government agencies in Mexico

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By Lawrence BonkFeb 25, 2026, 12:12 pm107 pts
Here's yet another troubling story about this "golden" era of AI. A hacker has exploited Anthropic's Claude chatbot to carry out attacks against Mexican government agencies, according to a report by Bloomberg . This resulted in the theft of 150GB of official government data, including taxpayer records, employee…

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