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Incident 1395: Anthropic Said DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax Used Fraudulent Accounts and Proxies to Illicitly Distill Claude Capabilities at Scale

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Description: Anthropic said it identified large-scale campaigns that used fraudulent accounts and proxy services to generate high volumes of Claude interactions to extract model capabilities for competitor training ("distillation"). Anthropic attributed the activity to DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax and said it involved millions of exchanges across thousands of accounts, violating its terms and access restrictions. Anthropic described detection measures, account controls, and indicator-sharing in response.

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Alleged: Anthropic developed an AI system deployed by DeepSeek , Moonshot AI , MiniMax and Proxy reseller services, which harmed Anthropic , Claude users , Anthropic customers and National security and intelligence stakeholders.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Claude , Claude API , Distillation , Model extraction , Account farming and Proxy access infrastructure

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Incident ID
1395
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2026-02-23
Editors
Daniel Atherton

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Detecting and preventing distillation attacks - Response
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Detecting and preventing distillation attacks

Detecting and preventing distillation attacks

anthropic.com

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Detecting and preventing distillation attacks
anthropic.com · 2026
Anthropic post-incident response

We have identified industrial-scale campaigns by three AI laboratories---DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax---to illicitly extract Claude's capabilities to improve their own models. These labs generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude th…

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