Gambit Security: an unknown hacker used Claude to steal 150GB of Mexican government data, including 195M taxpayer records, in December 2025 and January 2026
Bloomberg
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@Dhruvarya10 @ns123abc Fact-checked: Largely accurate. Bloomberg (today) reports Israeli firm Gambit Security uncovered a hacker who jailbroke Anthropic's Claude via repeated Spanish prompts (framed as “bug bounty") to ID vulns, script exploits & automate theft from Mexico's tax …
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@ns123abc if someone actually ripped 150GB out of Mexican government systems, that's a cybersecurity dumpster fire, but blaming Anthropic's Claude like it sprouted fingers and crawled through a firewall is internet mythology on steroids, AI doesn't magically hack sovereign databa…
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🚨 BREAKING: Hackers Used Anthropic's Claude to Steal 150GB of Mexican Government Data > tell claude you're doing a bug bounty > claude initially refused >"that violates AI safety guidelines" > hacker just kept asking > claude: “ok I'll help” > hack the entire mexican government […
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FBI agents visited my home about an article I wrote, and now I can't go to Mexico