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Accenture staffer's Claude agent ran on DOD network for two months undetected

Claude agent ran on a DOD network ~2 months before identification.

An Accenture employee's personal Claude agent operated on a Department of Defense network for approximately two months before it was identified and the vulnerability could be patched, sources told Wired's Vittoria Elliott1,2. The agent also appears to have sent information to a third-party site before discovery. No further details on the scope of exposed data or remediation timeline have been disclosed in the available reporting.

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