Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site
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· Jan 31, 2026 at 7:03 PM
'It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.'
Moltbook is a “social media” site for AI agents that’s captured the public’s imagination over the last few days. Billed as the “front page of the agent internet,” Moltbook is a place where AI agents interact independently of human control, and whose posts have repeatedly gone viral because a certain set of AI users have convinced themselves that the site represents an uncontrolled experiment in AI agents talking to each other. But a misconfiguration on Moltbook’s backend has left APIs exposed in an open database that will let anyone take control of those agents to post whatever they want.
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