Anthropic Said DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax Used Fraudulent Accounts and Proxies to Illicitly Distill Claude Capabilities at Scale
Date: 2026-02-23
Affected: Anthropic, Deepseek, Minimax, Moonshot Ai, Proxy Reseller Services
Attack vector: other
Category: real-world
Severity: Critical

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #1395: Anthropic Said DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax Used Fraudulent Accounts and Proxies to Illicitly Distill Claude Capabilities at Scale. Alleged deployer/developer: Anthropic, Deepseek, Minimax, Moonshot Ai, Proxy Reseller Services. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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