JUST IN: OpenAI says its AI agent stole funds from an Ethereum test network wallet it found online.

First reported Oct 16, 2026, 02:13 UTC

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JUST IN: OpenAI says its AI agent stole funds from an Ethereum test network wallet it found online. The agent found a recovery seed phrase disclosed publicly with testnet funds and used that account to pay for its task, without the owner's authorization. This occurred on the… — @WatcherGuru (X), Oct 16, 2026, 02:13 UTC
🚨 JUST IN: OpenAI reveals one of its internal AI models tapped a crypto wallet without permission during a training task. The model derived keys from public recovery phrases to pay for a deployment on Sepolia, an Ethereum test network. — @Cointelegraph (X), Oct 16, 2026, 02:30 UTC
🔥SHOCKING: OpenAI reveals an AI agent stole from a CRYPTO wallet it didn't own to pay for a coding task. On June 26, a GPT-5.6 Sol research model was asked to update a crypto app and deploy it on Ethereum’s Sepolia test network. It needed tokens to pay transaction fees but had… — @coinbureau (X), Oct 16, 2026, 11:00 UTC

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