Customer data leak alleged after Anthropic Claude outage
Claims emerged that customer data was leaked following Claude's service outage on Friday. Anthropic is investigating the claims, and whether a leak actually occurred and its scale have not been confirmed.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Anthropic
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Not confirmed
- Cause / method
- Not confirmed
- Location
- United States
If your data was exposed
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Timeline
- It emerged that Anthropic was investigating claims of a customer data leak following the Claude outage.
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