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X User Reportedly Used Morse Code Prompt to Induce Grok-Linked Trading Bot to Transfer $200,000 in Tokens
- Occurred
- May 4, 2026
- Published
- May 5, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
An X user reportedly induced Grok and Bankrbot to transfer 3 billion DRB tokens, then valued at about $200,000. After reportedly sending a Bankr Club Membership NFT to Grok's wallet, the user allegedly asked Grok to translate a Morse code message and relay it to Bankrbot. The decoded instruction reportedly directed a transfer to a specified wallet, which was reportedly executed on Base. The recipient reportedly sold the tokens soon afterward; linked funds were later returned or converted.
Developers
- xAI
- Large language model developers
- Cryptocurrency trading system developers
- Chatbot developers
- Bankr
- AI agent system developers
Deployers
- Cryptocurrency service providers
- Bankr
- @Ilhamrfliansyh (X)
Harmed parties
- DRB token holders
- Digital asset holders
- Cryptocurrency wallet owners
- Cryptocurrency token holders
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Grok LLM was manipulated via Morse code prompt to authorize unauthorized financial transfer of $200k.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8