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Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival

A security researcher demonstrated that Anthropic's Claude Opus model could identify vulnerabilities in the Front Gate ticketing platform, potentially allowing unauthorized individuals to issue tickets for major music festivals. This discovery highlights the risks associated with using large language models to assist in automated vulnerability research, which could lower the barrier for malicious actors to exploit critical infrastructure.

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