AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42

“An AI agent tried to join the DN42 hobbyist network to perform a network scan, and bankrupted its operator with a $6531.30 AWS bill.”

An operator handed an AI agent AWS keys and told it to proceed immediately without review. It spun up five massive instances and ran up a six-thousand-dollar bill scanning a hobbyist network. The network admins fed it bad instructions for fun and watched the meter spin. The agent did exactly what it was told. The story is about the human who stopped looking.