The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/11/14/anthropic-says-its-claude-ai-chatbot-was-used-by-chinese-hackers-for-large-scale-cyber-attack/In what sounds like both a word of warning and weirdly a little bit of bragging, SF-based Anthropic says that its AI chatbot Claude was used by state-sponsored hackers in China to commit a large-scale cyberattack on American companies. Anthropic's Claude chatbot was reportedly used to commit a large-scale cyberattack on around 30 American companies two months ago, and it's hard not to feel like Anthropic doesn't hate the honor of being the first company whose chatbot has been employed in this nefarious way. As the Wall Street Journal was first to report, state-sponsored Chinese hackers used Claude to collect user names and passwo

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