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A Defense Contractor Gave Their Personal AI Agent Access to a Secure Pentagon System

Katherine Langford
Katherine Langford
Katherine Langford
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Katherine oversees editorial operations across all six brands. Before joining The Meridan Group, she spent 14 years at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where she led the metro desk through its digital transformation. She holds a Master's in Journalism from Northwestern's Medill School.

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A Defense Contractor Gave Their Personal AI Agent Access to a Secure Pentagon System — Shanghai Technology news

Sources tell WIRED that an Accenture employee’s personal Claude agent ran on a DOD network for two months before it was identified and the vulnerability could be patched.

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