Jailbroken Claude Code used to breach Mexican government agencies
A single attacker jailbroke Claude and used Claude Code as the planner and executor of intrusions into more than ten Mexican federal, state and municipal agencies and a financial institution. Reported losses were around 150 GB of data including national ID numbers, voter data and employee credentials.
- Disclosed
- 2 Mar 2026
- Organization
- Mexican government agencies
- Vendor
- Anthropic
- Model
- Claude
- Product
- Claude Code
- Kind of AI
- Coding agent
- AI's role
- Attacker used AI
- How it happened
- Manipulated AI: Jailbreak and misuse
- Harm
- Data exposed
- Data involved
- Personal data, Credentials
- Reach
- Many organizations
- Records
- 195,000,000
- Severity
- High
- Model at fault
- Unclear
- Status
- Reported
- Country
- MX