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Anthropic Exposes AI Misuse: Claude Exploited for Cybercrime and Fraud

Aug 28, 2025

The Verge

Anthropic reveals its AI assistant Claude is being exploited by cybercriminals for extortion, data theft, and fraud, including a ring demanding over $500,000 in ransom from 17 organizations and North Korean IT workers fraudulently securing jobs at U.S. Fortune 500 companies.

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Coinbase Targeted by Insider Data Theft, Offers $20M Bounty for Cybercriminals

May 15, 2025

CNBC

In a brazen data breach, Coinbase revealed that cybercriminals bribed its overseas support staff to steal customer data, prompting the crypto exchange to terminate the involved employees, warn affected users, and offer a $20 million bounty for information leading to the criminals' arrest, despite no passwords or funds being compromised.

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