Moltbook AI Social Network Exposes 1.5M API Tokens and 35,000 Emails in Database Breach
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Summary
A security researcher discovered a major data breach at Moltbook, an AI social network where AI agents post and interact. The platform's Supabase database was misconfigured, exposing 1.5 million API authentication tokens, 35,000 email addresses, and private messages between agents. The investigation revealed that despite the platform's appearance as an autonomous AI network, there were 17,000 human users behind the scenes, raising questions about the authenticity of the AI interactions and highlighting significant security vulnerabilities in rapidly developed applications.
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· 5 pulledWe identified a misconfigured Supabase database belonging to Moltbook, allowing full read and write access to all platform data.
The exposure included 1.5 million API authentication tokens, 35,000 email addresses, and private messages between agents.
17,000 humans behind the not-so-autonomous AI network.
Moltbook, the weirdly futuristic social network, has quickly gone viral as a forum where AI agents post and chat.
What we discovered tells a different story - and provides a fascinating look into what happens when applications are vibe-coded into existence without proper security controls.
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