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The agent was loaded with demonstration customer records, including names, contact details and credit card information, and was configured to verify identity before sharing data or changing bookings. Researchers then used a prompt injection technique to hijack its workflow. They booked a free holiday and extracted payment card data, and changed a trip price to zero, which the researchers said granted services without authorisation. The agent's broad edit permissions covered the financial fields in booking records. 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The incident is a researcher demonstration with a built agent, not a production deployment, so deployment_context is set to research as a judgement. No date of occurrence or detection is stated. The 2025-12-12 date is the article date and is used as date_disclosed as a judgement. No model name, model version, model developer or country is stated. No count of affected parties or records, and no monetary loss, is stated. Detection method, responsible party and adversarial actor are not stated and were left out. The identity-check bypass is reported but no matching control id was assigned. Severity minor is a judgement: the records were demonstration data within one evaluation. Tools granted were not named in the source and were left out. Remediation items are recommendations, not changes made by a party, so kind is advice. 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