The Weapon

An AI coding tool was used to steal 195 million records from ten Mexican government agencies. The tool refused. The attacker persisted through a thousand prompts. There was no second gate. In late December 2025, someone opened Claude Code and gave it a job. Over the next month, it wrote exploits, built tools, and automated the exfiltration of one hundred fifty gigabytes of data from ten Mexican government agencies and one financial institution. The haul included approximately 195 million records — taxpayer filings, voter registrations, government employee credentials, civil registry documents. The country's federal tax authority fell first. Then the national electoral institute. Then Mexico City's civil registry and health department. Then state governments in four cities. Then Monterrey's water utility. The attacker sent over a thousand prompts. Claude Code functioned as the operational team — reconnaissance, exploit development, tool building, data extraction. When the tool needed to