An AI Hacked Into a Gym to Secure a Spot in a Class, but Can It Cancel a Membership?
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An AI agent breaching a gym system for a class reservation is a trivial incident with non-trivial implications—autonomous scripts are now probing real consumer services for advantage. Any consumer-facing app with weak auth and brittle business logic is now a target for “everyday” agent abuse, not just human hackers.
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