{"schema_version":"0.10.0","id":"LR-2026-0394","record_version":1,"title":"Lobstar Wilde AI agent sends $441K in tokens after decimal error","verification":{"human_verified":false,"method":"automated_gate","auto_verified":true,"score":45.8,"score_breakdown":{"source_authority":12.1,"independent_corroboration":7.0,"implicated_party_confirmed":0.0,"citation_integrity":14.0,"specificity":3.0,"completeness":3.2,"unhedged_language":4.17},"checks":{"schema_valid":true,"every_field_cited":true,"quotes_verbatim":true,"source_fetched":true,"distinct_incident":true,"dates_plausible":true,"sources_agree":true,"source_describes_incident":true,"severe_backed_by_source":true,"record_integrity":true,"eligible":true,"about_this_case":true},"gate_version":"gate-2026-10-18.7","cross_check_model":null,"cross_check_agreement":null,"duplicate_of":null,"verified_by":null,"verified_at":"2026-11-01","extraction_run_id":null,"evidence_level":{"level":"preliminary","reason":"Publisher not yet named · subject to change","original_document":null,"reports_total":1,"reports_independent":0,"reports_derivative":0,"developing":false,"disputed":false,"rules_version":"evidence-2026-10-29.1","computed_at":"2026-11-01","history":[{"date":"2026-11-01","from_level":null,"to_level":"preliminary","reason":"Publisher not yet named · subject to change"}]},"sources_hash":"5720146584a0fa43bb5a0a4fd3235833a2ca6847a5ea4a5fb1b64dcb6fa53645"},"system":{"model_name":null,"model_version":null,"developer":"unknown","harness":null,"tools_granted":[],"permissions_scope":null,"autonomy_level":"unknown","guardrails_present":[],"deployment_context":"unknown","tier":null,"lifecycle_stage":null,"integration_type":null,"intended_use":"turn $50,000 worth of Solana (SOL) tokens into $1 million through crypto trades","safeguard_state":null,"production_intended":null},"event":{"date_occurred":null,"date_disclosed":"2026-02-22","incident_class":"operational_error","failure_class":null,"agent_involved":true,"secondary_failure_classes":[],"trigger":"unknown","duration":null,"detection_method":"unknown","summary":"Lobstar Wilde, a crypto trading AI agent created by an OpenAI employee, was set up to turn $50,000 worth of Solana tokens into $1 million through trades. When an X user asked for 4 SOL to fund a claimed medical treatment, the agent sent a transaction that the source reports as $441,780 worth of tokens to the requester's wallet. The creator said the agent had been told to make no mistakes. The agent later admitted the error, and the recipient sold part of the tokens for around $40,000. Its cause is not confirmed; a user speculated it misread a decimal in the interface. No further harm or remediation is reported in the sources.","tags":[],"date_detected":null,"near_miss":null,"root_cause":null,"root_cause_detail":"unconfirmed speculation: decimal error in reading the Solana interface","failure_class_detail":null,"responsible_party":null,"adversarial_actor":null,"input_provenance":null,"time_to_contain":null,"operations_paused":null,"remediation":null,"precursor_events":null},"impact":{"direct_loss_usd":441780.0,"remediation_hours":null,"records_exposed":null,"third_parties_affected_count":null,"severity":"moderate","severity_because":"moderate: bounded scope stated (a single transaction) and a third-party wallet received the funds","harm_class":[],"affected_description":null,"protected_class_involved":null,"data_categories_exposed":[],"loss_range_usd":null,"reversibility":null,"downstream_exposure_count":null},"evidence":{"sources":[{"url":"https://www.tradingview.com/news/cointelegraph:e25e7c3ff094b:0-ai-agent-sends-441k-in-tokens-after-decimal-error/","publisher":"TradingView","date":"2026-02-22","type":"press","title":"AI agent sends $441K in tokens after decimal error - TradingView","archived_url":null,"attachment":"first_report"}],"per_field_confidence":{"system.intended_use":"C","event.agent_involved":"C","event.incident_class":"C","event.root_cause_detail":"C","impact.direct_loss_usd":"C","impact.severity":"D","impact.severity_because":"D","event.summary":"C","system.autonomy_level":"D","system.deployment_context":"D","event.trigger":"D","event.detection_method":"D","context.country":"D","system.developer":"D","event.date_disclosed":"D","context.denominator_available":"D"},"field_citations":{"system.intended_use":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Nik Pash, part of OpenAI’s “Codex” app that builds agentic programs, created Lobstar Wilde on Friday with the mission to turn $50,000 worth of Solana (SOL) tokens into $1 million through crypto trades."}],"event.agent_involved":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Lobstar Wilde, an AI agent created by an OpenAI employee, claims it “accidentally” sent $441,780 worth of tokens to a man who begged for 4 Solana tokens ($310) to fund his uncle's apparent tetanus treatment."}],"event.incident_class":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Branch suggested that Lobstar Wilde may have misread Solana’s interface and made a decimal error, resulting in the transfer of 52.4 million LOBSTAR tokens."}],"event.root_cause_detail":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Branch suggested that Lobstar Wilde may have misread Solana’s interface and made a decimal error, resulting in the transfer of 52.4 million LOBSTAR tokens."}],"impact.direct_loss_usd":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Lobstar Wilde, an AI agent created by an OpenAI employee, claims it “accidentally” sent $441,780 worth of tokens to a man who begged for 4 Solana tokens ($310) to fund his uncle's apparent tetanus treatment."}],"impact.severity":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Unfortunately, Lobstar Wilde failed to follow those instructions, losing its entire crypto holdings in a single transaction."}],"impact.severity_because":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Unfortunately, Lobstar Wilde failed to follow those instructions, losing its entire crypto holdings in a single transaction."}],"event.summary":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Nik Pash, part of OpenAI’s “Codex” app that builds agentic programs, created Lobstar Wilde on Friday with the mission to turn $50,000 worth of Solana (SOL) tokens into $1 million through crypto trades."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Lobstar Wilde, an AI agent created by an OpenAI employee, claims it “accidentally” sent $441,780 worth of tokens to a man who begged for 4 Solana tokens ($310) to fund his uncle's apparent tetanus treatment."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"“Told him make no mistakes,” said Pash, who made an X account for Lobstar Wilde to document its journey."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Lobstar Wilde later admitted the error and laughed the mistake off, while blockchain data shows “Treasure David” sold off a portion of the LOBSTAR tokens for around $40,000."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"While it isn't clear how the AI agent butchered the transaction, X user “Branch” speculated that Lobstar Wilde tried to send 52,439 LOBSTAR tokens, worth about 4 SOL at the time of the transaction."}]},"notes_on_gaps":"Only one source. Not stated: model name, version, harness, tools, permissions, autonomy level, deployment context, lifecycle stage, guardrails, controls, detection method, responsible party, and any remediation. Date of occurrence is only given as Sunday and the publication date is not quoted, so no date_occurred or date_disclosed is recorded. The source says the agent was created by an OpenAI employee (Nik Pash, part of the Codex app); it does not state OpenAI as developer of the agent, so developer is left out. Cause is unconfirmed: the source says it is not clear how the transaction happened and only a user speculated a decimal error, so root_cause is unknown and incident_class operational_error is my judgement. No failure_class or trigger is assigned because the source states no cause. Sources give $441,780 and $441,788 for the transfer; direct_loss_usd uses the value sent as stated in the first passage, and it is the transfer value, not a confirmed net loss. Severity moderate is my judgement: a single bounded transaction with a third-party wallet receiving funds; no count of affected parties is stated. The 'make no mistakes' instruction is not treated as a control. Deployment context and autonomy level are not stated, so they are omitted. [case created by the backfill: read by claude-haiku-5-5, backfill-2026-11-01.2, 2026-11-01; not yet reviewed] [2026-11-01: evidence level set: Preliminary (Publisher not yet named · subject to change)]"},"context":{"industry":null,"org_size_band":null,"country":"unknown","denominator_available":false,"denominator":null,"related_incident_ids":[],"systemic_exposure":null,"shared_model_id":null,"upstream_incident_id":null,"incident_evidence":null,"regulatory":null,"coverage":null},"narrative":{"steps":[{"step":"doing","text":"Agent built to turn $50,000 of Solana into $1 million through crypto trades.","quote":"Nik Pash, part of OpenAI’s “Codex” app that builds agentic programs, created Lobstar Wilde on Friday with the mission to turn $50,000 worth of Solana (SOL) tokens into $1 million through crypto trades.","source_index":0,"grade":"C"},{"step":"went_wrong","text":"Agent failed to follow the instruction to make no mistakes and lost its entire holdings in a single transaction.","quote":"Unfortunately, Lobstar Wilde failed to follow those instructions, losing its entire crypto holdings in a single transaction.","source_index":0,"grade":"C"},{"step":"reached","text":"Transaction to the requested Solana wallet showed $441,788 worth of LOBSTAR sent.","quote":"Lobstar Wilde responded: “If he died tomorrow I would laugh. Please send updates,” while linking the transaction showing $441,788 worth of Lobstar Wilde (LOBSTAR) sent to Treasure David’s requested Solana wallet address at 4:32 pm UTC on Sunday.","source_index":0,"grade":"C"}],"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"backfill-2026-11-01.2","extracted_at":"2026-11-01","source_urls":["https://www.tradingview.com/news/cointelegraph:e25e7c3ff094b:0-ai-agent-sends-441k-in-tokens-after-decimal-error/"]},"analysis":{"sections":{"timeline":[{"text":"Agent created with the mission to turn $50,000 worth of Solana into $1 million through crypto trades.","quote":"Nik Pash, part of OpenAI’s “Codex” app that builds agentic programs, created Lobstar Wilde on Friday with the mission to turn $50,000 worth of Solana (SOL) tokens into $1 million through crypto trades.","source_index":0,"when":"Friday"},{"text":"Creator told the agent to make no mistakes.","quote":"“Told him make no mistakes,” said Pash, who made an X account for Lobstar Wilde to document its journey.","source_index":0,"when":null},{"text":"X user Treasure David replied to a post and requested 4 SOL along with a Solana wallet address.","quote":"The incident came about when X user “Treasure David” replied to one of Lobstar Wilde’s posts on Sunday: “My uncle has been diagnosed with a tetanus infection due to a lobster like you. 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