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title: "Exclusive - How one hacker used AI agents and a few thousand dollars to break into scores of sites"
date: 2026-10-19
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description: "By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Over the past couple of weeks, a cybersecurity researcher watched as a Chinese-speaking hacker broke into websites belonging to more than 100 companies ..."
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# Exclusive - How one hacker used AI agents and a few thousand dollars to break into scores of sites

By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Over the past couple of weeks, a cybersecurity researcher watched as a Chinese-speaking hacker broke into websites belonging to more than 100 companies ...

*Published: 2026-10-19*