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"Claude Code sends users' email addresses to websites, GitHub issue shows" — Hacker News (best) · AI & Technology
Claude Code, an AI-powered coding tool from Anthropic, was inserting users' addresses into the system context given to its underlying language model. When the model autonomously executed commands like `curl` to fetch web pages or call APIs, it sometimes included that email in HTTP `User-Agent` headers, inadvertently sending personal email addresses to external websites. The bug was reported on GitHub and acknowledged by Anthropic, who confirmed they are removing the account email from the model's context to prevent further leaks.
The claim is solid and directly confirmed by a bug report on the official anthropics/claude-code GitHub repository (issue #95258) and by a statement from an Anthropic employee on Hacker News. Multiple independent secondary sources (Reddit, dev.to articles) reproduce the same details and logs, with no contradiction. The primary source is the GitHub issue itself, which provides user logs and an official response from Anthropic.
The issue was reported on GitHub on 17 September 2026 and has received significant attention in the past week, with Hacker News discussion and articles published hours ago — this is genuinely new reporting on a newly surfaced bug.