Claude helped uncover a ticketing flaw able to unlock free VIP festival passes

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• Anthropic’s Claude helped uncover a critical security flaw that could have had real-world consequences.
• The vulnerability affected Front Gate Tickets, which powers ticket sales for events like Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza.
• An attacker could have gained super-admin access, issued free or VIP tickets, and potentially accessed millions of customer records.

Artificial intelligence is becoming better at writing codes, answering questions, and helping developers build apps. Now it’s proving it can uncover security bugs that humans might miss — and a recently disclosed case shows just how serious that can be.

Security researcher Ian Carroll says he used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 to help him find a critical vulnerability in Front Gate Tickets, the ticketing platform used by many of the biggest music festivals in the US (via Wired). Had the flaw fallen into the wrong hands, it could have allowed someone to generate tickets for major events, including expensive VIP packages, while also exposing sensitive internal systems.