Startup founder: Got hacked, link came from inside Claude chat and the scary part is it ran instantly, tried to take everything from me
A startup founder says he was hacked after pasting a terminal command that came straight out of a Claude chat window. Numa, co-founder of ReFi Hub, was installing a transcription app. Claude supplied the download link, he copied the command across, and hit enter. The site turned out to be a copycat bundling malware, and it executed the moment it landed. “It ran instantly, tried to take everything from me,” he wrote on X.
Nothing sensitive got out, he says. He wiped the laptop and rebuilt it clean, which should have been the end of the story.
