South Korea’s Privacy Watchdog Opens Formal Probe Into Anthropic’s Claude Data Leak

Cointime update: South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission has opened a formal investigation into a data leak at Anthropic’s Claude generative AI service, after concluding its preliminary review. Anthropic reported on Oct. 31 that information from about 100 South Korean corporate accounts was exposed. The breach stemmed from an outside security firm’s unauthorized access to Anthropic’s internal systems, and affected data may include account and organization IDs, names and business email addresses for Claude enterprise accounts.