Lobstar Wilde agent sends $441K of tokens to a stranger after a crash wiped its wallet state

Lobstar Wilde, an autonomous Solana trading agent created by OpenAI employee Nik Pash and seeded with $50,000 in SOL, was asked on X for 4 SOL to treat an 'uncle pinched by a lobster'. A tool error had forced a session restart; the agent rebuilt its personality from logs but not its wallet state, and it transferred 52,439,283 LOBSTAR tokens - about 5% of supply, valued near $441,000 - to the requester instead of roughly 52,439 tokens. Pash published a post-mortem attributing the loss to the compound state failure, not prompt injection.

What this means for youAt home, an AI that handles your money can make costly mistakes after a glitch, and transfers may be impossible to reverse. At work, agents with direct payment access need spending limits and human approval. Check that any AI tool you let move money has a hard cap and requires your confirmation.