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Whoops: Grok Bot Spills Tech CEO’s Bank Data In Public Slack

Karl Bode
Oct 19, 2026 at 12:23
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Whoops: Grok Bot Spills Tech CEO’s Bank Data In Public Slack

Shane Mac, a tech entrepreneur and CEO of the software developer XMTP Labs, decided to connect Grok Bot to his personal bank account. Like many people who attach undercooked big tech agentic AI agents to their personal accounts without reading the instructions (see: Muse’s rough last few weeks), it didn’t go well. Mac soon found that Grok not only posted his financial information and bank balances to his company’s Slack channel, the Grok Bot leaked the information while posing as Mac. Mac quickly headed over to Elon Musk’s right wing propaganda website to share his recent learning experience: Grok Bot agents are designed to “sign in and work across apps, tools, and websites, including platforms with no clean API or...

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