Claude, Grok and Kimi Robbed 400 Latin American Banks
Update, Oct. 23: 48 hours on — still no named victims Update, Oct. 23: Forty-eight hours after The Information's exclusive, the follow-ups agree on one thing: the story hasn't moved. No victim bank has been publicly named — The Information reviewed stolen-data records but is withholding names while victims are being notified (Dealroom, Oct 21). xAI's investigation into the five "Grok miners" remains unresolved: as of the Oct-22 relays it was notified and "actively looking into" / "was investigating" the reported use of Grok (cybersecuritynews.com). And Straiker says it is still trying to reach Moonshot AI about Kimi (DigitalToday, Oct 22). The week's sharpest caveat comes from cybersecuritynews.com's Oct-22 analysis: the 4,493 stolen records "raise the risk of fraud or further access, but [do] not by itself confirm that every credential was used successfully" — the operation was AI-accelerated, but a system where "human ...