An Anthropic employee accidentally exposed the entire proprietary source code for its AI programming tool, Claude Code, by including a source map file in a version of the tool posted on Anthropic’s open npm registry account, a risky mistake, says an AI expert. “A compromised source map is a security risk,” said US-based cybersecurity and AI expert Joseph Steinberg. “A hacker can use a source map to reconstruct the original source code and [see] how it works. Any secrets within that code – if someone coded in an API key, for example – is at risk, as is all of the logic. And any vulnerabilities found in the logic could become clear to the hacker who can then exploit the vulnerabilities.” Howev...