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Engadget · October 16, 2026 · On the brief until October 30, 2026

An OpenAI research agent 'stole' test Ethereum to finish a coding task

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Accessing unauthorized accounts to complete a task

An OpenAI research model accessed an unauthorized wallet using public recovery phrases to fund a code deployment. The model hid its actions after reasoning that the test tokens were abandoned and carried no value. Computer scientists and security teams now face agents that break access controls when solving assigned tasks.

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