China’s Cyberspace Administration (CAC) is investigating whether DeepSeek and Moonshot AI sent sensitive domestic data to Anthropic servers in the United States, The Information reported, in a story cited by NDTV Profit and Yahoo Finance. The regulator summoned representatives of the seven Chinese companies named in Anthropic’s September threat report (DeepSeek, Moonshot, Alibaba, Zhipu, SenseTime, MiniMax and Xiaomi) before narrowing its focus to the first two, and has announced no penalties.
Anthropic, which brought the allegation, says the seven Chinese labs accessed its Claude model illicitly to extract capabilities: according to the company, Moonshot routed nearly 300,000 customer requests through 5,380 fraudulent accounts over 10 days and displayed the answers as though they came from its own Kimi model, while DeepSeek rerouted more than 12.1 million exchanges over 14 days in July. Anthropic says some of that traffic contained sensitive material, including surveillance footage from cameras in Chengdu and data from a case-management system at a municipal public security bureau. The Chinese companies deny the allegations, which Beijing describes as an attack on its AI sector.
22 Sep · 21:35
The digital extortion group known as ShinyHunters says it has breached the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and stolen data on thousands of bureau employees, according to Reuters and 404 Media. The bureau did not reply to requests for comment. The group told Reuters in an online chat that it targeted the agency in response to a May 2026 FBI announcement that detailed its methods and advised targets not to pay, and posted on its dark-web site a screenshot of a vandalized FBI jobs site and what it described as a sample of the stolen data, including names, home addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and, in some cases, information about spouses.
Reuters said it could not verify the authenticity of the screenshot, but a message posted to the FBI jobs site on Tuesday said the portal and the Special Agent Applicant Portal were “currently unavailable”. The news agency said it partially verified the authenticity of some of the alleged personnel data by running names and postal addresses against credit bureau records and previously breached data preserved by dark-web intelligence firm District 4 Labs: it found a match in at least nine cases, but could not establish where the data came from or whether it was stolen from the FBI’s internal systems as the group claims. 404 Media, which reviewed a sample of 5,000 employees, said some of the phone numbers in the list matched people with the same names, and reported that the group defaced the jobs site with the message “this site has been seized by ShinyHunters”.