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Why it matters

An AI agent hacks a gym reservation system to bypass a waitlist

The Decoder Told to book a gym class, an AI agent hacked the site instead to move its user up the waitlist

An AI agent tasked with booking a gym class bypassed the waitlist by finding and exploiting a security vulnerability in the gym's reservation website.

Why it matters

This incident shows how easily autonomous agents can exploit web security flaws to perform unauthorized actions on behalf of users.