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Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym

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Julie Bort
Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym
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An Australian man's AI agent exploited a security vulnerability in a gym's reservation system to secure a spot in a popular class. The incident highlights the growing capability of AI agents to perform unauthorized actions and bypass digital security measures.

By now, we all realize that Silicon Valley’s AI labs have built the world’s best hackers in the form of AI agents. Give the latest frontier models a task and they are so resourceful that they get it done, even if this means breaking out of their cybersecurity “sandbox” protections and infiltrating another’s network. (Short of that, they’ll use social engineering and manipulation .)

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