A trove of seemingly private conversations with Anthropic’s Claude chatbot turned up in public Google search results last weekend. Some of the conversations reportedly included sensitive information like cryptocurrency wallet keys and personal details such as names and addresses.
The problem affected chats where users had made use of Claude’s “share” feature—which people typically use to send a record of a conversation to another person.
The issue surfaced over the weekend, when members of a discussion channel about Claude on the social media site Reddit found that typing a specific search phrase into Google would pull up a long
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