Anthropic GitHub Takedown Blunder: How a Leak Cleanup Accidentally Nuked Thousands of Repos
In a significant operational misstep, AI firm Anthropic triggered the removal of approximately 8,100 GitHub repositories this week. The company was attempting to contain a leak of its Claude Code command line application’s source code. According to a statement from Anthropic, the mass takedown was accidental. This incident, occurring in San Francisco on April 1, […]
