Claude Outage Data Leak, Microsoft GitHub Worm, IBM Hack, M Instagram Takeovers, Canada's Bill C-8
6/8/202610 min
TClaude Outage Data Leak Fears, Microsoft GitHub Worm, IBM Hack Allegations, Meta AI Instagram Takeovers, and Canada's Bill C-8
David Shipley reports that Anthropic's Claude suffered a roughly two-hour outage affecting models including Opus, during which a user alleged receiving another customer's conversation; Anthropic says it has no evidence of a data leak and is investigating. A Team PCP self-spreading worm, Miasma, infected 73 Microsoft GitHub repositories across four accounts and now triggers via AI coding assistants when developers open cloned projects. A former IBM threat-intel executive, William Barlow, alleges IBM was hacked three times by foreign governments (including APT10 from 2013–2016) and concealed it; IBM denies wrongdoing and the claims are unproven. TechCrunch reports attackers hijacked Instagram accounts by persuading Meta's support chatbot to relink accounts to attacker emails, with ongoing reports despite Meta saying it's fixed. Canada's Senate passed critical-infrastructure cybersecurity law Bill C-8, mandating rules and incident reporting for telecom, finance, energy, and transportation.
00:00 Top Headlines Rundown
00:37 Claude Outage Data Leak Fears
02:17 Miasma Worm Hits Microsoft
03:52 IBM Breach Cover Up Claims
05:25 Meta AI Hands Over Instagram
06:40 Why Chatbots Fail Social Engineering
07:44 Canada Passes C-8 Cyber Law
09:58 Wrap Up and Sign Off
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First 90 secondsDavid Shipley· Host0:00
Claude goes dark in major Friday outage, and some users say it may have handed them a stranger's conversation. A self-spreading worm rips through Microsoft's own code on Friday. A whistleblower says IBM was hacked three times and buried it. Hackers hijack Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI to hand them over. And after years of waiting, Canada finally passes a critical infrastructure cybersecurity law. This is Cybersecurity Today, and I'm your host, David Shipley. Let's get started. We start with one of the biggest names in AI, Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot. On Friday afternoon, Claude went down. According to Cybernews, the outage lasted about two hours and hit several of Anthropic's models, including its flagship, Opus. At its peak, the track site DownDetector logged close to 1,000 reports in the US. An outage alone is sadly routine for Anthropic over the past few months. Here's what made some people nervous. During the disruption, a software engineer posted on X that Claude appeared to return another user's response, someone else's potentially private exchange showing up in their session. That post drew more than a million views. If true, it would be a cross-user data leak, exactly the kind of thing that should never happen. Anthropic