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The Claude Code Leak: Was Anyone Fired, and What Should Leaders Learn?

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In March 2026, Anthropic accidentally leaked nearly 2,000 internal source code files for Claude Code, their AI coding tool. Within hours, the code was copied across the internet. A post sharing a link to it got 29 million views. Anthropic…

Mark Graban
April 5, 2026
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