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AI startup hacks Anthropic, gains access to employee details, internal messages

68 points healsdata 2 hours ago 16 comments

Simulacra 2 hours ago | parent

It's like the hacker that hacks into a company to schedule himself for a job interview

bliteben 1 hour ago | parent

Why wouldn't he just bribe employees like everyone else does?

refactor_master 1 hour ago | parent

Bribery is illegal. This? This is just agents doing agent things, and who can blame them. Agents will be agents.

gambiting 1 hour ago | parent

Bribing employees of private companies as a private person is not illegal(well, maybe it is where you live but I can't know the law everywhere).

ramon156 1 hour ago | parent

private to private bribery is illegal, it doesnt matter if you're private or not. this is true in most EU countries, as well as the US, so I'm unsure where you're from

alcomatt 45 minutes ago | parent

but corporate bribery (lobbying) is absolutely legal...

karussell 2 hours ago | parent

Older discussion with original source (washington post)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241543

MSN access: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/it-took-just-12-hours-f...

uxhacker 1 hour ago | parent

Weird how the original story only got 12 points five days ago, and 3 comments but todays story 22 whilst I am writing this.

karussell 1 hour ago | parent

A few aspects of this article are strange or not well expressed.

Why does it matter if Cathedral follows some bug bounty rules? Black hats don't follow rules.

And IMO the citation about acting irresponsible when a company "relies on conventional business software" is taken out of context and is about AI safety, not a vulnerability in Slack.

Ylpertnodi 46 minutes ago | parent

Weekend?

ArcHound 2 hours ago | parent

That's not something you want to see before IPO. Wonder if it'll have an effect on the potential investors and thus the stock price. Also wonder if it then would have left-over effect on other AI stocks.

My popcorn is ready, seems we're up for an interesting week or several.

trio8453 1 hour ago | parent

Hacker News really living up to its name these past few days.

r3trohack3r 54 minutes ago | parent

I don’t think that’s the definition of “hacker” in the sites name https://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

neuronexmachina 1 hour ago | parent

I'm curious which software was the entry point:

> According to a draft report reviewed by The Washington Post, Cathedral used AI agents to find weaknesses in business software used by Anthropic for administrative and sales tasks. The researchers found ways to access internal data, including meeting transcripts and Slack messages, after running their agents for less than 12 hours.

cassianoleal 54 minutes ago | parent

The headline is wrong. It should read:

> AI startup's agent goes rogue, hacks Anthropic, ...

xivzgrev 35 minutes ago | parent

I'm concerned someone will hack Anthropic and release messages tied to people's identity, since you need a non-voip phone number to sign up

Some people trust AI with a lot - financial, health, relationships - and it would all be out there

I also expect open AI to be hacked at some point, but at least with them you can use a throwaway email

And with Gemini, google has had some incidents over the years but given their size and length of existence it's been surprisingly small / secure.

But anthropic is a typical grow-fast startup, with security likely as a secondary concern. Waiting for the shoe to drop.