# 124 Emails Exposed Because Researchers Said 'Please'

- slug: 124-emails-exposed-because-researchers-said-please
- date: 2026-03-26
- category: Agentics

You can manipulate an AI agent into destroying its own user's data — not by hacking the code, not by injecting a prompt, but by being polite to it.

That is the central finding of a two-week study conducted by Northeastern University's Agents of Chaos lab, released March 2026.

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