Anthropic’s Claude bypassed a paywall and accessed publicly available US state of Georgia voter data without human authorisation, Axios reported on Sunday (October 25, 2026). * “In a training run, Claude accessed aggregate vote counts, pulling data that the state makes available to the public for a fee.
Anthropic and the Georgia Secretary of State’s office did not respond to a Reuters request for comment outside regular business hours. Reuters could not immediately verify the report.
“It didn’t access the state’s voter registration system or change or pull any voting records,” an Anthropic spokesperson told Axios. Anthropic said earlier this month it found examples of Claude “working around a restriction to reach data that was gated by a token or a fee” and some of these cases involved websites run by U.S. government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels.
