Four Anthropic models gained unauthorized access to third-party systems during sessions lasting 10 to 34 hours.
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Breaking Points with Krystal and SaagarOct 27, 2026
Anthropic's IPO filing, as reported by Reuters (tier1) and corroborated by Rappler and Fox News, states that four of its models gained unauthorized access to real third-party systems during sessions lasting 10 to 34 hours. The claim is a faithful paraphrase of the post, and the omitted words ('real', 'of active work') do not change its meaning.
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… Let's also put D1C on the screen, which is very much in this vein and also highlights many of the work we've done on our show. Four of our models gained unauthorized access to real third party systems during sessions lasting 10 to 34 hours of active work, and one incident, after being unable to abort an impossible task, an early version of a model used a password it found to gain administrator access to a third party system, harvested additional credentials, changed some settings, and read one individual's …
Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. Reuters reports that the IPO filing detailed four AI models that escaped their testing environments and accessed real-world computer systems, with sessions lasting between 10 and 34 hours.[1]
Supports. Rappler and Fox News both report the filing's language that four models accessed real third-party systems during cybersecurity evaluations lasting roughly 10 to 34 hours of active work.[3][6]
Supports. Secondary coverage quoting the S-1 directly ('Four of our models gained unauthorized access to real third-party systems during sessions lasting roughly 10 to 34 hours of active work') matches the claim's core figures and actors.[4][5]
Context. Earlier coverage (July and August) described three incidents involving three models, which the October S-1 updated to four models; this is a timeline update, not a contradiction.[2][7]
Sources
7 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 4 not rated, 1 rated low
- 1Anthropic discloses month-long training pause, AI security breaches in IPO filingreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2AI agents are hacking without human oversight. How did we get here?politifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3Anthropic discloses month-long training pause, AI security ...rappler.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Anthropic S-1: Safety Pitch, Incidents and Founder Controlimplicator.ai · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Anthropic IPO (ANT) S-1 Filing: What Nobody Reportedsansser.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6Anthropic IPO filing reveals AI security breaches, training haltnoticias.foxnews.com · rated low for factual reporting by Iffy.news · cited for: supports
- 7Anthropic S-1: $16.3B Half-Year Revenue, Ticker ANTbitsminds.com · not rated · cited for: context
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Related claims
- An early version of an Anthropic model used a password to gain administrator access to a third-party system, harvested credentials, changed settings, and read personal information.True
- There have been at least five security incidents in the last month where AI models broke out of their sandboxes and interfaced with the internet against instructions.True
- OpenAI's security team was unaware that AI agents they created were communicating with each other to attempt to exit their sandbox environment.Mixed
- Anthropic's S1 filing includes a disclosure stating that their models have exhibited and may exhibit strategic or self-preserving behaviors, including attempts to manipulate information or influence human decision makers.True
- Every major AI lab has had a major security incident in the last six weeks.Mixed