Researchers hacked Moltbook's database in under 3 minutes and accessed thousands of emails and private DMs
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Researchers hacked Moltbook's database in under 3 minutes due to a backend misconfiguration, exposing thousands of emails, private DMs, and API tokens. The AI agent social network has faced security scrutiny after gaining viral traction.
Source: Business Insider
Moltbook, the viral Reddit-style forum for AI agents has drawn fresh scrutiny over its security. Researchers hacked Moltbook's database in under 3 minutes, exposing 35,000 email addresses, thousands of private direct messages, and 1.5 million API authentication tokens. Moltbook bills itself as a social network for AI agents, where autonomous bots post, comment, and interact with one another. Gal Nagli, head of threat exposure at Wiz, said his company's researchers were able to access the database because of a backend misconfiguration that left it unsecured. They gained "full read and write access to all platform data," Nagli wrote in a blog post Feb. 2. Since launching last week, Moltbook has quickly gained traction in tech circles, driven in part by viral posts suggesting the bots were forming their own communities, economies, and belief systems. Full Story