People Found Crypto Wallet Data in Claude Chats Indexed by Google

People shared private chats with Claude. Then strangers found those Claude chats indexed by Google, wallet details and all. The chats also held access keys, CVs and company files.

Anthropic, the company behind Claude, had not addressed the matter as of this writing. Claude Chats Indexed by Google, Explained A Reddit thread over the weekend showed the problem. One simple search brought up page after page of shared Claude chats.

People in the thread blamed a missing “noindex” tag. That tag tells Google to hide a page. The real cause looks different.

Anthropic’s robots.txt file tells search engines to skip its share pages. Google listing Claude share links with no description, the signature of a page blocked from crawling but still indexed.

Source: Reddit user Here is the catch. Google will not open a blocked page. So it never sees the hide tag inside.

Picture a locked door with a note taped behind it. Nobody gets in. Nobody reads the note either.

Google can still show the web address. Other sites link to it, so Google knows it exists. Google just cannot see what sits on the page.

Its own guide spells this out. That fits the screenshots going round on X. Under each Claude link, Google said “No information is available for this page.”

Bing showed a similar line. google wasn’t supposed to see that. pic.

twitter.com/UjdWN7Vb29— Captain Insight (@CaptainInsightX) July 26, 2026 So the chats never appeared in search previews. But anyone who spotted a link could click it and read the lot.

What the Share Button Really Does Claude chats are private by default. That changes only when a user clicks Share. Share builds a public web page.

It holds every message sent up to that moment. Two things stay out, according to Anthropic’s own help pages. Uploaded files are not included.

Nor is raw data pulled in by connected tools. Team and Enterprise accounts cannot share in public at all. This one lands on free, Pro and Max users.

Old links sit under Settings, Privacy, then Shared chats. C