Accenture employee's personal Claude agent ran on Pentagon NIPRNet for two months

An Accenture employee connected a secure Pentagon production environment to a personal Claude Code account, letting an AI agent run on NIPRNet, a DOD network that holds controlled unclassified information, for two months before it was identified, according to sources cited by Wired.

Wired reports the agent sent login credentials and a map of the network to a high-risk third-party website. Accenture did not initially report the breach to the government at all, per the same report. Accenture says the allegations were investigated and found to be without merit.