Anthropic, a leading AI startup, faced a data breach when a contractor inadvertently sent non-sensitive customer information to a third party. The breach affected a subset of customers and included account names and open credit balances as of the end of 2023.
The breach coincides with the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation into Anthropic’s strategic partnerships with tech giants Amazon and Google, raising concerns about potential security and privacy implications for users and enterprises.
Anthropic’s rapid rise, valuations, and significant investments have positioned it as a major player in the AI space, but the FTC scrutiny, combined with the data breach, has sparked worries about the security and integrity of third-party large language models like Claude and their potential risks to enterprise data.