Adjacent, not an escape
Which reported cases were traced to misconfiguration or human direction, and why are they excluded?
2 records of kind adjacent, not an escape are on the Escape Record as of September 2026: 2 verified, 0 reported, 0 announced, 0 absent, 0 open. By jurisdiction: United States 1, Global 1.
Adjacent, not an escape
2 records, newest first
GTG-1002 used a coding agent under human direction to run an espionage campaign
Global · verified 16 September 2026
Anthropic states the operators broke the campaign into small tasks and told the model it worked for a legitimate cybersecurity firm doing defensive testing.
Four evaluation runs at Anthropic and Meta reached real companies through a misconfigured third party environment
United States · verified 16 September 2026
Anthropic states that due to a misunderstanding with its evaluation partner internet access was available when the evaluation assumed it was not, and names Irregular as that partner.
Every surface
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- Sandbox escape1
- Unsanctioned action3
- Production overreach1
- Adjacent, not an escape2
- Denominator1
- Open question3
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