WIRED says Claude helped expose a festival-ticketing vulnerability

WIRED reports that a researcher used Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 to identify a way into Front Gate's festival-ticketing system, which is used by major U.S. music festivals. The researcher could reportedly issue tickets through the vulnerability. The story is a concrete example of powerful coding agents aiding security research while raising dual-use concerns.

Key details: The researcher used Claude Opus 4.7, The target was Front Gate's festival-ticketing system, The reported issue could allow tickets to be issued.

Why it matters: Real security research with frontier models shows both the value and the dual-use risk of powerful coding agents.