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Employee's personal AI agent ran on Pentagon system for two months

2026-10-30 · Source: Wired ↗

Employee's personal AI agent ran on Pentagon system for two months
📷 David B. Gleason from Chicago, IL, CC BY-SA 2.0

According to Wired's sources, an Accenture employee's personal Claude agent ran on a US Department of Defense network for two months. After it was identified, the vulnerability was patched. The defense contractor employee had given their AI agent access to a secure Pentagon system.

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