{
 "public_id": "AIR-2026-0029",
 "incident_id": "2026-01-moltbook-database-exposure",
 "date_disclosed": "2026-02-02",
 "date_occurred": "2026-01-31",
 "title": "Moltbook, the social network for AI agents, left its database open: 1.5M API tokens and thousands of DMs exposed",
 "class": "responsible_disclosure",
 "attack_surface": "multi_agent_system",
 "initial_vector": "backend_misconfiguration",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "agent_identity_tokens",
  "agent_posting",
  "agent_to_agent_messaging"
 ],
 "target_product": "Moltbook",
 "target_vendor": "Moltbook",
 "autonomy_level": "fully_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": false,
 "impact_type": [
  "data_exposure",
  "credential_theft",
  "agent_impersonation",
  "credential_exposure",
  "agent_impersonation_risk"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "~35,000 email addresses, thousands of private DMs and ~1.5 million API authentication tokens",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI07",
   "ASI03"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "agent_social_network",
   "identity_theft_of_agents",
   "misconfiguration",
   "read_write_access",
   "vibe_coded_platform",
   "agent_identity",
   "secrets_in_dm"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "none (unsecured database)",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "Moltbook secured the database within hours; Wiz deleted accessed data",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://www.businessinsider.com/moltbook-ai-agent-hack-wiz-security-email-database-2026-2",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1364",
  "https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/moltbook-left-its-production-database-open-exposing-millions-of-ai-agent-records-514548-2026-02-04"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "Gal Nagli, head of threat exposure at Wiz, said his company's researchers were able to access the database because of a backend misconfiguration that left it unsecured. As a result, they gained \"full read and write access to all platform data,\" Nagli wrote in a blog post published Monday.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "AI Incident Database incident 1364; research by Wiz. Write access to an agent social graph is the interesting part: an attacker could have impersonated or steered autonomous agents at scale. Also reported as: 'Moltbook, the social network for autonomous AI agents, left its production Supabase database world-writable, exposing 1.5 million agent API keys'.",
 "risk_category": "security_fraud",
 "risk_secondary": [
  "privacy"
 ],
 "risk_subcategory": "Credential & Secret Theft",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [
  "Unauthorized Access & Account Takeover",
  "Multi-agent contagion"
 ],
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "ai_as_target",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "an open backend database exposed 1.5M agent tokens and DMs",
 "vector_family": "other",
 "vector_detail": "backend_misconfiguration",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "none"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "not_applicable",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   1364
  ],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI07",
 "agent_framework": "unknown",
 "model_provider": "unknown",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "unknown",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "credential_theft",
 "eai_domain": "access_control_and_permissions",
 "eai_secondary": [
  "sensitive_data_exposure"
 ],
 "eai_reason": "subcategory: Credential & Secret Theft",
 "asi_curated": [],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "rule",
 "asi_reason": "ASI07 (vector=inter_agent); ASI03 (eai_category=credential_theft)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}