Litany Of The Hacked: April 2026 Round-Up
(p.s. programming note: We're doing the April 2026 Litany of the Hacked today to make room for a multi-part special series starting Monday. Come back next week for our three-part series!) Do April cyber-attack showers bring May cybersecurity flowers? Better hope so! The litany of the hacked is our listing for each known/reported hack in the previous month. The point of the litany is not shame but awareness-raising that, well, these sorts of things happen. And so, the litany of the hacked for April 2026. Our litany this month reflects...I think the word is hubris (or hýbris ) , to be classical: the über -hacker-program, Mythos, the One AI To Rule Them All, was -- hacked! “We’re investigating a report claiming unauthorised access to Claude Mythos Preview through one of our third-party vendor environments,” said Anthropic . One implication is that nothing is entirely safe when people start getting involved . Another, to be a little more cheerful, is that the AI arms race to AGI...