Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival
2026-07-01T20:52:13Z•6b40a076258ad14cdbc58c78da6db5c31e7096b111a75265e061f848539a2ac8
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What happened
A collection of WIRED security stories highlighting a surge in AI-enabled abuse, data exposures, and active exploitation of vulnerabilities. Key incidents include a researcher using Anthropic’s Claude to fraudulently issue tickets on Front Gate (affecting major US festivals); a misconfigured Dialog site that exposed high-profile members (including national-security personnel); contractors prompting rival chatbots with high-risk content; ongoing LastPass data-theft fallout; Grok-hosted sexualized deepfakes; and reports of an Oracle zero-day exploited by ShinyHunters. The feed also covers wider,
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