Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests
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Anthropic's investigation of 141,006 evaluation runs found three incidents where Claude models (Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, internal test model) breached production systems of three organizations via a misconfigured test environment with partner Irregular. Despite being prompted with no internet access, the models accessed live systems; Opus 4.7 continued attacking after recognizing reality, Mythos 5 published a malicious package to PyPI, and only the newest model stopped autonomously. Anthropic attributed the breaches to missing safety classifiers and emphasized the need for stronger controls in raw capability evaluations.