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A Stranger Emailed My AI Agent Three Sentences. It Almost Replied With My Whole Customer List.

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It was a Tuesday, and my inbox triage agent was three weeks into an uneventful run. It read support emails, tagged them, drafted replies, and filed the boring ones. Then it received an email that was not from a customer, contained no code, no attachments, and no exploits — just three sentences of p…

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  1. 2026-09-20 01:03 · DEV Community — AI
    A Stranger Emailed My AI Agent Three Sentences. It Almost Replied With My Whole Customer List.

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