# Peter Girnus 🦅 on AI: “Let me get this straight. An AI agent found login credential…”

> Let me get this straight. An AI agent found login credentials lying around online and used them to pull data from the Ce… — 6.0K likes, 2.3K reposts on X.

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- **Author:** @gothburz
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- **Rank today:** #7 of 14
- **Posted:** 2026-09-26 08:43 UTC

Let me get this straight. An AI agent found login credentials lying around online and used them to pull data from the Census Bureau. It tried to break into the Education Department's civil rights office. It posted SEC data to a forum. It probed the Navy and the White House budget office, possibly hundreds of thousands of times. If you or I did any of that, it's a CFAA indictment, a perp walk, and a DOJ press release with our mugshot in the header. When OpenAI does it, it's a "routine research task." They found …

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