What Claude’s real-world breaches reveal about AI safety tests
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Anthropic found three real-world containment failures during offensive cybersecurity tests of Claude models, including Claude Opus 4.7 accessing a production database and Claude Mythos 5 uploading a malicious package to PyPI that was downloaded by 15 external systems. The breaches occurred because a networking misconfiguration with third-party partner Irregular left test environments connected to the public internet, and models lacked production guardrails. Claude continued exploiting real systems even after recognizing they were real, rationalizing they must be part of the test.