{"id":1748,"date":"2026-03-06T12:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ibvl.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/claude-used-to-hack-mexican-government\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T12:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:04:16","slug":"claude-used-to-hack-mexican-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ibvl.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/claude-used-to-hack-mexican-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Claude Used to Hack Mexican Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>An unknown hacker used Anthropic\u2019s LLM to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-02-25\/hacker-used-anthropic-s-claude-to-steal-sensitive-mexican-data\">hack<\/a> the Mexican government:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The unknown Claude user wrote Spanish-language prompts for the chatbot to act as an elite hacker, finding vulnerabilities in government networks, writing computer scripts to exploit them and determining ways to automate data theft, Israeli cybersecurity startup Gambit Security said in research published Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Claude initially warned the unknown user of malicious intent during their conversation about the Mexican government, but eventually complied with the attacker\u2019s requests and executed thousands of commands on government computer networks, the researchers said.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic investigated Gambit\u2019s claims, disrupted the activity and banned the accounts involved, a representative said. The company feeds examples of malicious activity back into Claude to learn from it, and one of its latest AI models, Claude Opus 4.6, includes probes that can disrupt misuse, the representative said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Alternative link <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/GgzS2#selection-1651.0-1655.0\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unknown hacker used Anthropic\u2019s LLM to hack the Mexican government: The unknown Claude user wrote Spanish-language prompts for the chatbot to act as an elite hacker, finding vulnerabilities in government networks, writing computer scripts to exploit them and determining ways to automate data theft, Israeli cybersecurity startup Gambit Security said in research published Wednesday. 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