{"id":1032230,"date":"2026-08-31T11:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032230"},"modified":"2026-08-31T11:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:10:20","slug":"startup-founder-got-hacked-link-came-from-inside-claude-chat-and-the-scary-part-is-it-ran-instantly-tried-to-take-everything-from-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/31\/startup-founder-got-hacked-link-came-from-inside-claude-chat-and-the-scary-part-is-it-ran-instantly-tried-to-take-everything-from-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Startup founder: Got hacked, link came from inside Claude chat and the scary part is it ran instantly, tried to take everything from me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. &#8220;It ran instantly, tried to take everything from me,&#8221; he wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing sensitive got out, he says. He wiped the laptop and rebuilt it clean, which should have been the end of the story. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &#8220;It ran instantly, tried to take everything from me,&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032231,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032230\/revisions\/1032231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}