Granting AI Email Access is Risky: It Can Unlock All Your Accounts
tristanbob · x · 2026-08-23
Granting AI agents access to your email is highly risky. Since email often serves as the key to password resets for all services, attackers could trigger a reset and then phish the email-connected AI agent to reveal the verification code, potentially taking over the user's accounts.
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