Ex-DOGE Staffers’ AI Startup Claims to Have Accessed Anthropic’s Internal Systems in Under 12 Hours

 

A months-old cybersecurity startup founded by former staffers of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) says its AI agents found paths into internal systems at Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI model, in less than 12 hours, according to a Washington Post report published Monday that cited a draft report it reviewed ^[1][2]. The startup, Cathedral, said it reached meeting transcripts, salary and job-offer details, and Slack messages about Anthropic's most advanced models ^[1][3].

The reported findings were characterized as alarming in the draft report, which described the speed of the access and the sensitivity of the material reached ^[1]. The breach was not in Claude itself; the report states that Cathedral's agents exploited flaws in third-party business software, the kind of administrative and sales tools used across enterprise environments ^[1].

The Washington Post report is the primary source for the claim, and independent confirmation was not immediately available. Anthropic had not issued a public statement as of the report's publication, and representatives of Cathedral did not respond to requests for comment before the deadline ^[1][4]. https://tinyurl.com/543p8bn9