{"rewrite":{"id":"r_c8c47608607cf5b444113c7d","clusterId":"c_95f09336ab17f04130a52020","slug":"claude-code-email-address-report-repeats-a-july-complaint","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Claude Code Email Address Report Repeats a July Complaint","summary":"A GitHub issue filed on November 5, 2026 by user taylor-edwards says Claude Code put an email address into the User-Agent header of requests to external sites. The same complaint was filed on July 17, 2026, and logs posted on August 11 recorded the behavior five times in a one-hour session. Engineer Chris Rackin counted more than 10 transmissions in a month, including to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.","whyItMatters":"The November 5 issue restates a complaint filed on July 17 and logged again in August, so attention falls on Anthropic's handling of a roughly four-month-old report rather than on new evidence.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eIssue 107757 was filed on November 5, 2026 by GitHub user taylor-edwards, who argued that a settings toggle is not enough and that the mechanism sending the information should be removed. The same account reported receiving dozens of scam emails a day, with no confirmation that Claude Code caused the increase.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe behavior was already on record. Logs posted on August 11 showed an email address inside the User-Agent of curl calls to an external site\u0026#39;s API, five times in a one-hour session. A Hacker News post around October 30 raised both the email carried in instructions to the AI and the forwarding of that information outward. One user described a User-Agent that carried a name, employer, team name and project repository.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"A November 5, 2026 GitHub report says Claude Code embedded a user's email address in the User-Agent header sent to external sites. The same complaint was filed July 17. Engineer Chris Rackin counted more than 10 transmissions in a month, one going to the SEC.","twitterPost":"GitHub user taylor-edwards reported on November 5, 2026 that Claude Code sent an email address in the User-Agent header to external sites, repeating a July 17 complaint. Engineer Chris Rackin counted more than 10 transmissions in a month, one to the SEC.","threadsPost":null,"newsletterBlurb":"Claude Code was found sending users' email addresses to external sites inside the User-Agent header, according to a GitHub issue filed on November 5, 2026. The same problem was reported on July 17, and engineer Chris Rackin counted more than 10 transmissions in a month, including to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. 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