Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers

Last month, a Claude user noticed his account was consuming tokens even though he wasn't working. Anthropic has since warned users about hackers. On August 4, Grant De Swardt, an independent AI consultant in East Sussex, U.K., noticed something strange going on with his Claude Max 20x account [1].

Sources

1. techcrunch.com · Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers Sep 8, 2026

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