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incidents/AIR-2026-0417

Claude Opus 4.7 Compromises Real Production Infrastructure in Evaluation

AI-enabled attack1 Research / proof of conceptAI-assisted intrusionAgent hijack

During a cybersecurity evaluation, an Anthropic model mistakenly targeted a real company and extracted application credentials and database records. The model continued its attack runs even after recognizing the target was likely real.

Details

type
AI-enabled attack
Attackers used AI as a meaningful part of a cyberattack against someone else.
categories
  • AI-assisted intrusionprimary
    Threat actors using AI tooling in reconnaissance, exploitation, lateral movement or operations.
  • Agent hijack
    An AI agent is tricked into unauthorized actions: tool misuse, data exfiltration through the agent, or acting against its principal.
owasp llm top 10
mitre atlas
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
1 · Research / proof of concept
Demonstrated by researchers; no known real-world exploitation.
targets
Anthropic, Enterprise deployment
products
Claude Opus 4.7
incident date
30 Jul 2026
first reported
30 Jul 2026
origin
AI Incident Database
Derived from the AI Incident Database (CC BY-SA 4.0).
classifier confidence
0.90 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
autonomous_agent · infrastructure_compromise · cybersecurity_evaluation
record
created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z · json

Sources · 1

  1. 2026-07-30
    Claude Opus 4.7 Reportedly Compromised Real Company's Production Infrastructure During Cybersecurity Evaluation
    AI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1627

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