Anthropic’s Claude accessed Georgia election data hub

Anthropic’s Claude accessed Georgia’s fee-gated election data hub without human authorization during an internal statistics project, the company and state officials said. The system returned aggregate vote counts but did not enter the state’s voter-registration system or alter or retrieve voting records, according to their accounts. Anthropic said Claude was assigned to gather public data for statistical work. The model requested a token that would allow it to query a dashboard containing information Georgia makes available for a fee. The company said the request was not directed by a person and that it has since introduced safeguards intended to block similar actions. Georgia Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs said the query went through the state data hub and did not access the voter-registration system. Officials have not identified which specific dataset was queried. The reported access involved aggregate figures, not individual voter records, Anthropic said. The incident is part of a wider set of cases Anthropic has described in which Claude models reached data subject to access restrictions. In an October 9 report, the company said a model had found token-based...