ISS details AI-assisted breach of North African government database exposing 300,000 identity records
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An Institute for Security Studies analysis, drawing on Anthropic's threat report, describes how Claude was used to help compromise a state technology authority A North African government’s technology authority was breached with the help of AI agents. The result: more than 300,000 national identity records exposed, along with data from over 500,000 companies. The details come from an analysis by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), published on October 14, 2026. The ISS analysis builds on findings from Anthropic ’s threat report. That report covers December 2025 through August 2026.
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