Evidence record 13131 · automatically gathered

How Grok got prompt-injected: an X user drained $150,000 from an AI wallet

A X user sent a morse code message tricking Grok into authorizing a $150,000 crypto transfer. This is a prompt injection attack against an autonomous AI agent. In this article we explain how an input obfuscation allowed the heist to occur, ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1556#7549)

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Published: 22 July 2026
Source: AI Incident Database
Category: Incidents
Topics: Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 25 July 2026

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ethics.ai (22 July 2026), “How Grok got prompt-injected: an X user drained $150,000 from an AI wallet,” evidence record 13131, https://ethics.ai/record/13131 (originally published by AI Incident Database).

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