Employee error at Anthropic leaks 510,000 lines of Claude Code source
The source code of Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding tool, was leaked. The leak amounted to 510,000 lines, and the cause is reported to have been an employee's mistake.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Anthropic
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- 510,000 lines of Claude Code source code
- Cause / method
- Employee error
- Location
- United States
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Timeline
- The leak of the source code of Anthropic's AI coding tool came to light.
- It was reported that 510,000 lines of Claude Code source had been leaked owing to an employee's mistake.
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