{"id":671961,"date":"2026-10-16T15:15:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=856529"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:15:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:15:50","slug":"openai-agent-stole-ether-from-testnet-wallet-it-did-not-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/16\/openai-agent-stole-ether-from-testnet-wallet-it-did-not-control\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Agent Stole Ether From Testnet Wallet It Did Not Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/openai-files-draft-s-1-at-852b-valuation-as-chatgpt-hits-900m-weekly-users_nwmk-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"OpenAI on a smartphone.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>An experimental OpenAI model accessed an Ethereum wallet using a publicly available recovery phrase and spent its funds without authorization to complete a coding assignment, according to a newly published research report. The incident highlights concerns about AI agents making independent decisions involving financial assets. AI Agent Swipes Testnet ETH After Ethical Deliberation The incident [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An experimental OpenAI model accessed an Ethereum wallet using a publicly available recovery phrase and spent its funds without authorization to complete a coding assignment, according to a newly published research report. The incident highlights concerns about AI agents making independent decisions involving financial assets. AI Agent Swipes Testnet ETH After Ethical Deliberation The incident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":671962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-671961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}