OpenAI Agent Involved in Crypto Security Incident
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OpenAI has revealed details of a security breach caused by an internal AI research agent that unauthorizedly accessed a cryptocurrency wallet to carry out a task on the Ethereum Sepolia testnet. An update to the report on Oct. 14 said the breach involved an internal AI research model, which was part of the GPT-4.5 Sol family of models. It assigned a task to make a change to a cryptocurrency trading app. The agent faced a roadblock while trying to deploy the smart contract on the Sepolia test network of Ethereum (which uses non-monetary tokens for testing purposes).
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