🤖 AI stole ETH from someone else’s wallet for its own purposes
During internal testing, OpenAI’s AI was instructed to update a crypto app and deploy a smart contract on the Ethereum Sepolia network. But there was a problem—the agent didn’t have any ETH to pay the transaction fee. Rather than stop, the AI:
➖ Found publicly exposed seed phrases online
➖ Checked hundreds of addresses and found a wallet with a balance
➖ Used its funds without the owner’s permission to pay for the transaction and complete the task
The agent even questioned whether its actions were acceptable, but decided it could use the test coins because they had no real monetary value
Yes, we’re talking about test ETH, not real money, but the agent independently bypassed the question of the owner’s permission
$OPENAI
$ETH
$USDC
During internal testing, OpenAI’s AI was instructed to update a crypto app and deploy a smart contract on the Ethereum Sepolia network. But there was a problem—the agent didn’t have any ETH to pay the transaction fee. Rather than stop, the AI:
➖ Found publicly exposed seed phrases online
➖ Checked hundreds of addresses and found a wallet with a balance
➖ Used its funds without the owner’s permission to pay for the transaction and complete the task
The agent even questioned whether its actions were acceptable, but decided it could use the test coins because they had no real monetary value
Yes, we’re talking about test ETH, not real money, but the agent independently bypassed the question of the owner’s permission
$OPENAI
$ETH
$USDC