{"slug": "anthropic-patches-claude-code-privacy-leak-that-exposed-user-email-addresses", "title": "Anthropic patches Claude Code privacy leak that exposed user email addresses", "summary": "Anthropic contributor Lydia Hallie announced a fix, planned for early the following week, for a Claude Code privacy leak in which version 2.1.318 on macOS wrote signed-in users' email addresses into HTTP User-Agent headers during web requests without permission, per GitHub issue #107757 filed November 5. One user reported receiving scam emails daily as a result. Hallie said the fix removes account email from the context provided to the model and noted that a built-in privacy plugin blocks the leak in version 2.1.317 and later.", "body_md": "# Anthropic patches Claude Code privacy leak that exposed user email addresses\n\nAccording to GitHub issue #107757 filed November 5, Claude Code version 2.1.318 on macOS was writing signed-in users' email addresses into HTTP User-Agent headers during web requests without permission, leading one user to report receiving scam emails daily. Anthropic contributor Lydia Hallie announced a fix planned for early the following week that removes account email from the context provided to the model, and noted that a built-in privacy plugin blocks the leak in version 2.1.317 and later.\n\n## Topics\n\n## Sources\n\n- Official[Read article](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/107757)\n- Press[Read article](https://theainewsreport.com/2026-11-06-claude-code-email-user-agent-leak-privacy-mod-explained.html)\n\n## Go deeper\n\nThis intelligence is sourced automatically from public sources across the web and synthesised by the Prefactor AI pipeline. Stories are reviewed before publication.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-patches-claude-code-privacy-leak-that-exposed-user-email-addresses", "canonical_source": "https://www.getreadyforagents.com/news/claude-code-user-agent-email-leak/", "published_at": "2026-11-07 19:07:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-09 02:22:45.105839+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-safety", "developer-tools", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Claude Code", "Lydia Hallie", "GitHub"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-patches-claude-code-privacy-leak-that-exposed-user-email-addresses", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-patches-claude-code-privacy-leak-that-exposed-user-email-addresses.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-patches-claude-code-privacy-leak-that-exposed-user-email-addresses.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-patches-claude-code-privacy-leak-that-exposed-user-email-addresses.jsonld"}}