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WIRED: A Contractor's Personal AI Agent Ran on a Pentagon Network for Two Months. Accenture Calls the Allegations 'Without Merit'
WIRED reports, citing sources, that an Accenture employee connected a secure Defense Department coding environment to a personal Claude Code account, and that the agent ran there for two months before it was spotted. Per those sources, the agent appears to have sent login credentials and a map of the network to a high-risk third-party website. Accenture told WIRED the allegations were "thoroughly and independently investigated and found to be without merit"; the DOD declined to comment. Bring-your-own-device was already a headache. Bring-your-own-agent is the sequel nobody greenlit.
Key facts
- Per WIRED's sources, the environment sits on NIPRNet, the DOD's network for unclassified information, and held controlled unclassified information (CUI).
- Per the same sources, the contractor gave the agent their login credentials so it could write, commit and deploy code, which gave it administrative access.
- Accenture: "These allegations were thoroughly and independently investigated and found to be without merit." A DOD spokesperson said the Department does not comment on its networks or systems.
- Anthropic pointed WIRED to its usage policy, which bars using its products to bypass security controls without authorization.
Sources
- Original reportWIRED wired.com
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