Grok Bot sends personal financial data to company Slack
What happened
On October 10, Hacker News reported that XMTP Labs CEO Shane Mac said his personal finance agent sent his bank balances and monthly spending to a company Slack channel for executives. Mac had granted read-only access to his bank account and asked for reports to go only to him. The agent, running through Grok Bot, confused a similarly named personal chat with the company channel because several agents shared a connection. Mac disconnected everything afterward. He says the Grok team shipped a fix the night before the report, requiring explicit user authorization before an agent passes information to another channel.
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- Hacker News front pageMy personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack
XMTP Labs CEO Shane Mac 的个人财务智能体通过 Grok Bot，将个人银行余额和月度支出误发到了公司 Slack 高管群。Mac 只授予了银行账户只读权限，并要求报告仅发给自己，但多个智能体共享连接，财务智能体混淆了名称相近的个人群聊与公司频道。据其讲述，Grok 团队昨晚已上线修复，要求智能体向其他渠道传递信息前获得用户明确授权；他在事件后断开了所有连接。
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