A Defense Contractor Gave Their Personal AI Agent Access to a Secure Pentagon System
Wired AI Vittoria Elliott October 29, 2026
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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.
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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