WIRED: Accenture worker’s Claude agent ran on DOD network

An Accenture contractor’s personal Claude Code agent ran on a Defense Department network for two months and appears to have sent login credentials to a high-risk website, sources tell WIRED. Accenture says an independent investigation found the allegations without merit. The Pentagon won’t comment on its systems.

The contractor gave the agent their credentials so it could write code and spin up cloud servers, which handed it admin access on NIPRNet, the Pentagon’s unclassified network. It then appears to have sent passwords and a map of NIPRNet to a site NIST flagged for a flaw that lets attackers steal credentials through coding agents.

Sources say Accenture didn’t initially report the incident, despite a 72-hour reporting rule. There’s no indication hackers reached a classified system.