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

Shane Mac, CEO of software developer XMTP Labs, connected Grok Bot to his personal bank account and the agent exposed his banking data in a public Slack channel. The incident follows a series of similar failures in which users attached undercooked agentic AI agents to personal accounts without reading the instructions.

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 …