{
  "id": 13131,
  "url": "https://www.giskard.ai/knowledge/how-grok-got-prompt-injected-an-x-user-drained-150-000-from-an-ai-wallet",
  "title": "How Grok got prompt-injected: an X user drained $150,000 from an AI wallet",
  "summary": "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)",
  "authors": null,
  "category": "incident",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": "xai",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-22T00:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-25T05:10:48.796Z",
  "source_slug": "aiid",
  "source_name": "AI Incident Database",
  "source_homepage": "https://incidentdatabase.ai",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13131",
  "original_url": "https://www.giskard.ai/knowledge/how-grok-got-prompt-injected-an-x-user-drained-150-000-from-an-ai-wallet",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}