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Anthropic took down thousands of GitHub repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident

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4/1/2026, 10:12:13 PM · 1 source · 1 article
Last updated: 4/27/2026, 1:50:33 PM

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  • According to GitHub’s, the notice was executed against some 8,100 repositories — including legitimate forks of Anthropic’s own publicly released Claude Code repository, according to users whose code got blocked.TechCrunch

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