Anthropic took down thousands of Github repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident
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Anthropic accidentally disabled over 8,000 GitHub repositories while attempting to remove leaked source code for its Claude Code application.Summary
Anthropic inadvertently caused the removal of approximately 8,100 GitHub repositories while attempting to secure leaked source code for its Claude Code command-line tool. The leak occurred when the company accidentally included proprietary code in a public release, prompting enthusiasts to share it widely. Anthropic issued a DMCA takedown notice that was overly broad, affecting legitimate forks of its own public repositories. The company has since retracted the majority of these notices, limiting the takedown to the specific repository containing the leaked material, and GitHub has restored access to the affected forks.
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