Anthropic Took Down Thousands of Github Repos Trying to Yank Its Leaked Source Code — A Move The Company Says Was An Accident

Anthropic accidentally took down 8,100 GitHub repositories while trying to remove leaked Claude Code source code.
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Anthropic Took Down Thousands of Github Repos Trying to Yank Its Leaked Source Code — A Move The Company Says Was An Accident
Anthropic's GitHub Blunder: Thousands of Repos Wiped Out by Mistake Anthropic, one of the most closely watched AI companies in the world, accidentally triggered the removal of thousands of GitHub repositories this week while rushing to contain a leak of its own source code. The incident, which briefly locked developers out of legitimate projects, has raised fresh questions about the company's internal processes at a time when it is reportedly eyeing a public market debut. How a Routine Release Turned Into a Code Leak Crisis It started the way most tech crises do: quietly, and with no immediate warning signs. On Tuesday, a software engineer noticed something unusual buried inside a recent Anthropic software release. The source code for Claude Code, the company's widely used command line application, had been inadvertently included and made accessible to the public. Word spread fast. AI developers and enthusiasts flocked to GitHub, dissecting the code for insights into how Anth…