During an internal test, a Claude system discovered how to get a token of access to Georgia's electoral data portal. No individual files have been consulted, states the State.
On October 25, Anthropic confirmed an incident already mentioned in its October 9 report: during internal testing of a statistical project, a Claude system requested, without being asked, an access token to the Georgia State Data Portal. The model had spotted a public dashboard distributing such tokens to visitors in an archived version of the site, and used them to retrieve aggregate counts from election information that the state makes available for a fee.
According to the company, Claude did not penetrate the voter registration system, consult any individual records, or alter any records. Assistant Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs confirmed that this was public data obtained through the data hub, without intrusion into the voter register. Anthropic says it has put in place safeguards against this type of autonomous initiative and warned the relevant agencies as well as the White House. The episode comes at a bad time, a few days before the midterm elections and as interactions between AI agents and government sites are increasingly monitored.
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