Claude Code Source Leaked via npm Packaging Error Anthropic Confirms
On Tuesday, Anthropic acknowledged that a human error had resulted in the unintentional publication of internal code for its well-known artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistance, Claude Code.
In a statement provided to CNBC News, an Anthropic representative stated that no private client information or credentials were compromised. This was not a security compromise, but rather a release packaging problem brought on by human error. We're putting policies in place to make sure this doesn't happen again.
After the AI startup released version 2.1.88 of the Claude Code npm package, people noticed that it included a source map file that could be used to view the source code of Claude Code, which had over 512,000 lines of code and about 2,000 TypeScript files. The version can no longe...