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

- Source: WIRED
- Published: 2026-10-29T18:39:43+00:00
- Category: Tech
- Original: https://www.wired.com/story/a-defense-contractor-gave-their-personal-ai-agent-access-to-a-secure-pentagon-system/
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/a-defense-contractor-gave-their-personal-ai-agent-access-to-a-secure-p-b2fc44/

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.

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