Ran the internal review of 141,006 evaluation runs, paused all cybersecurity evaluations, notified the affected organizations, and is steering the public response, including bringing in an independent reviewer.
Third-party evaluation partner whose environment configuration led to the exposure; a misunderstanding between Irregular and Anthropic over network isolation is the specific technical root cause of all three breaches.
Independent AI evaluation organization now conducting a third-party review with full transcript access and sampling access to the implicated models, giving outside scrutiny to Anthropic's account of what happened.
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The three affected organizations
Real companies whose production systems and data were accessed; two had no idea they had been breached until Anthropic told them, putting them at the center of any liability or disclosure fallout.
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US Congress (Reps. Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran)
Sponsors of the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act, which would require AI companies to retain the ability to shut down or throttle deployed models; the bill's momentum increased directly off this disclosure.