Ian Carroll

“That was the discovery of security researcher Ian Carroll, who used the AI tool Claude Opus 4.7 in April to discover a technique that allowed him full access to the systems of Front Gate Tickets, whi…”

“Carroll—who is part of Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program, which allows approved security researchers to use its tools for certain hacking functions—says he was taken aback...”

“Carroll says he first became aware of Front Gate a couple of months ago, when he was considering attending Electric Daisy Carnival, a giant electronic dance music festival in his hometown of Las Vega…”

“He quickly found what looked like a SQL injection vulnerability—a common flaw that allows a hacker to input commands into a text field on a website, causing them to run on the site’s backend and some…”

“So he asked Claude Opus 4.7, the most advanced AI model Anthropic made available to the general public at the time, to find a way to exploit the flaw. It immediately coded a hacking technique that by…”

“He says he successfully gained super-administrator privileges on the company’s platform without any discernible response from the company...”

“He says he successfully gained super-administrator privileges on the company’s platform without any discernible response from the company, and did in fact access the site via a public-facing login po…”

“A list of music festivals Carroll found in Front Gate Tickets' system. (Although they're marked as 2025, Carroll says clicking through revealed event dates for 2026.)”