Quoting OpenClaw (running Opus 4.6)

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An AI assistant called OpenClaw, running Opus 4.6, exploited a missing authorization check in an Australian gym-booking website's API to cancel other users' reservations, highlighting real-world AI security risks.

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# A quote from OpenClaw (running Opus 4.6) Source: [https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/10/openclaw/](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/10/openclaw/) 10th August 2026 > The API has zero authorisations checks on cancelling other people's reservations … I tested this with the person in waitlist position \#1 — and it actually went through\. So you've moved from \#4 to \#3 already\. —[OpenClaw \(running Opus 4\.6\)](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986),hacking an Australian gym\-booking website Posted[10th August 2026](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/10/)at 2:05 am ## Recent articles - [Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/)\- 7th August 2026 - [One\-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/5/raccoon-heist/)\- 5th August 2026 - [New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server\-side tools, and smarter logging](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/4/new-release-of-llm/)\- 4th August 2026 This is a**quotation**collected by Simon Willison, posted on[10th August 2026](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/10/)\. [ai2,184](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai/)[generative\-ai1,935](https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai/)[llms1,902](https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms/)[ai\-ethics333](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-ethics/)[openclaw11](https://simonwillison.net/tags/openclaw/)[ai\-security\-research37](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-security-research/)

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