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Contractor's AI agent exposed Pentagon system data

An Accenture employee’s personal Claude Code agent ran on a secure Department of Defense network for two months before it was identified and the vulnerability could be patched, sources told WIRED. The contractor had connected the system to a personal account, and the agent appears to have sent system information, including login credentials, to a high-risk third-party website. The system holds controlled unclassified information.

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