One Hacker, AI Agents and $50 Break Ins at 100+ Companies

One hacker typed fewer than one hundred characters of instructions, and AI agents spent the next weeks breaking into more than one hundred companies for about fifty dollars each. Fifty Dollars a Break In: How One Hacker Let AI Agents Breach More Than 100 Companies, October 21, 2026 A Reuters exclusive shows a single hacker handing most of an intrusion campaign to AI agents, probing more than 1,200 online stores and breaching over 100 companies, including sites tied to Deere, SharkNinja and ...