# A Defense Contractor Gave Their Personal AI Agent Access to a Secure Pentagon System

**Published:** October 29, 2026
**Author:** Vittoria Elliott
**Source:** Wired — Artificial Intelligence
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/a-defense-contractor-gave-their-personal-ai-agent-access-to-a-secure-pen

Sources tell WIRED that an Accenture employee’s personal Claude agent ran on a DOD network for two months before it was identified and the vulnerability could be patched.

> From the original source: **Wired — Artificial Intelligence**
> [Read full article at Wired — Artificial Intelligence](https://www.wired.com/story/a-defense-contractor-gave-their-personal-ai-agent-access-to-a-secure-pentagon-system/)

**Tags:** #Anthropic #Microsoft

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