Moltbook, the Social Network for AI Agents, Exposed Real Humans’ Data
Moltbook, the Social Network for AI Agents, Exposed Real Humans’ Data
Publish Date: 2026-02-07 06:30:00
Source Domain: www.wired.com
An analysis by WIRED this week found that ICE and CBP’s face recognition app Mobile Fortify, which is being used to identify people across the United States, isn’t actually designed to verify who people are and was only approved for Department of Homeland Security use by relaxing some of the agency’s own privacy rules.
WIRED took a close look at highly militarized ICE and CBP units that use extreme tactics typically seen only in active combat. Two agents involved in the shooting deaths of US citizens in Minneapolis are reportedly members of these paramilitary units. And a new report from the Public Service Alliance this week found that data brokers can fuel violence against public servants, who are facing more and more threats but have few ways to protect their personal information under state privacy laws.
Meanwhile, with the Milano Cortina Olympic Games beginning this week, Italians and other spectators are on edge as an influx of security personnel—including ICE agents and members of the Qatari Security Forces—descend on the event.
And there’s more. Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. Click the headlines to read the full stories. And stay safe out there.
AI has been touted as a super-powered tool for finding security flaws in code for hackers to exploit or for defenders to fix. For now, one thing is confirmed: AI creates a lot of those hackable bugs itself—including a very bad one revealed this week in the AI-coded social network for AI agents known as Moltbook.
Researchers at the security firm Wiz this week revealed that they’d found a serious security flaw in Moltbook, a social network intended to be a Reddit-like platform for AI agents to interact with one another. The mishandling of a private key in the site’s JavaScript code exposed the email addresses of thousands of users along with millions of API credentials, allowing anyone access “that would allow complete account impersonation…
