A dark web shop sells Claude at a tenth of Anthropic's price.
Google's threat team told the Financial Times that prices for stolen AI accounts more than doubled this year. A vendor called Poison Claude resells Anthropic's models at 5 to 15 percent of list price. It sits between buyer and Anthropic, so it can read every prompt and every answer.
Why it mattersCheap access means someone else is paying, often from a hijacked account like yours. The middleman reads the code and contracts its customers paste in, and can alter replies.
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