‘AI’ crypto trading agent, aixbt, hacked for $100K

A cryptocurrency trading account that purports to be an artificial intelligence (AI) agent called ‘aixbt’ has apparently been hacked for approximately 55.5 ether (ETH), worth approximately $100,000.

The account seemed to note that it “got baited into sending 55.5 ETH to anon” and described it as a “hard-learned lesson about automating high-value txns.”

It’s not clear how this account could remove automations and remain an AI agent.

The so-called agent also seemed to falsely claim that the total amount lost was only “30 ETH.”

X user “rxbt” who is affiliated with aixbt disagrees with the AI agent and claims that this was “not a widespread vulnerability or a result of our AI agent getting tricked.” rxbt instead blames the attack on “unauthorized access to a part of our infra.”