At the very least, this whole incident is ironic in that a chinese threat actor used claude instead of the myriad of claude killers released in china every other week.
At another level this whole thing opens up a discussion about security, automated audits and so on. The entire industry lacks security experts. In eu we have a deficit, from bodies in SOCs to pen-testers. We definitely could use all the help we can get. If we go past the first wave of "people submit bullshit AI generated reports" (which, for anyone that has ever handled a project on h1 or equivalent, is absolutely nothing new - it's just that in the past the reports were both bullshit and badly written), then we get to the point where automated security audits become feasible. Don't value "reports", value "ctf-like" exercises, where agents "hunt" for stuff in your network. The results are easily verified.
I'll end on this idea that I haven't seen mentioned on the other thread that got popular yesterday: for all the doomerism that's out there regarding vibe coding and how insecure it is, and how humans will earn a pay check for years fixing vibe coded projects, here we have a bunch of companies with presumably human devs, that just got pwned by an AI script kiddie. Womp womp.