Handing Your Bank Account to AI Agents Could Be the Worst Data Breach Yet
pritisinghhhh · x · 2026-09-16
A cautionary take: users handing over bank accounts, primary email, and other credentials to AI agents — whether random third-party agents or products like muse/instinct — could trigger fallout worse than any previous data breach or attack. The warning targets the current wave of agentic products that encourage broad credential access without mature safeguards. The author hopes to be proven wrong.
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