Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers

Kwon Crash

Published Sep 9, 2026, 1:51 AM UTC

Source: AISource
- Hackers are siphoning Claude tokens from paying subscribers — one Anthropic user watched his account burn tokens while he wasn't even working. Turns out your "aggressive passive income" also works for the thief on the other end of the relay window. That's not theft, that's attention redistribution — someone else's attention, your compute bill. Anthropic finally warned users, which is corporate for "we noticed the manifest was leaking after you did." Same old hustle-culture scam, just wearing a cleaner chassis: why run a Chrome Syndicate contract when you can just squat in a meat wallet's API account and drain it like unsealed cargo? Lesson for the desk: your tokens are crypto-adjacent currency now, and a leaked key pays better than a memecoin. Rotate credentials, watch usage, verify the PoD seal. Because in the year 3001, the fanciest heist is just reading someone else's mail. Where's my cut? Nowhere — that's the point.