Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival
2026-07-02T20:52:12Z•9f41e06a4228371f3e9c4c3fc4eb3d829d3c6b9a9d00fa6af9963ba76ca3b845
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What happened
A roundup of WIRED security reporting (June–July 2026) highlighting multiple high-impact incidents and systemic risks: a researcher used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 to discover a way to issue arbitrary tickets via Front Gate (affecting major US festivals); hundreds of Meta contractors posed as teens to probe rival chatbots on suicide/sex/drugs; a misconfigured Dialog site exposed members’ PII (including senior national-security figures); LastPass users suffered another data theft; top Google security staff warned EU pro‑competition changes could create privacy and attack surface problems for G
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- wired_security
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- 2026-07-02T20:52:12Z
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- Yes
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