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title: "'It’s 100 percent a national security threat': Accenture contractor connected an AI agent to the Pentagon’s secure network, and then sent data to a high-risk website"
date: 2026-10-30
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description: "An Accenture contractor at the Department of Defense is in hot water over an AI agent that was given access to the Pentagon's secure internal network. The Claude Code agent then collected data from ..."
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# 'It’s 100 percent a national security threat': Accenture contractor connected an AI agent to the Pentagon’s secure network, and then sent data to a high-risk website

An Accenture contractor at the Department of Defense is in hot water over an AI agent that was given access to the Pentagon's secure internal network. The Claude Code agent then collected data from ...

*Published: 2026-10-30*