A hacker exploited Anthropic PBC’s chatbot to carry out a series of attacks against Mexican government agencies, stealing a trove of sensitive tax and voter information, according to cybersecurity researchers.
Unidentified user Claude wrote prompts in Spanish for the chatbot to act as an elite hacker, finding vulnerabilities in government networks, writing computer scripts to exploit them and identifying ways to automate data theft, Israeli cybersecurity startup Gambit Security said in research published Wednesday. The activity began in December and continued for about a month. In total, 150 gigabytes of Mexican government data was stolen, including documents related to 195 million taxpayer records as well as voter registries, government employee credentials, and civil registry files.
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