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Wells Fargo

American multinational financial services company

Security · U.S. banks scramble to block unauthorised AI agents from customer accounts

Major U.S. banks including Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo are contending with unauthorised third-party AI agents accessing customer accounts, Axios reports. Banking executives have described the situation as horrifying, and several institutions have begun actively blocking the agents and rewriting their terms of service to prevent the practice.