Description: Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis reported that an attacker used agentic AI techniques to access its systems and customer account information, including names, email addresses, user IDs, and organizational roles. The company said it found no evidence of access to investigation content or authentication credentials. The AI tools used and number of affected users were not disclosed.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: AI agent system developers developed an AI system deployed by Agentic threat actors , Threat actors and Cybercriminals, which harmed Chainalysis and Chainalysis users.
Alleged implicated AI system: AI agent systems
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1795
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2026-10-30
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
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Chainalysis Team post-incident response
Chainalysis was recently the target of a cybersecurity incident, similar to many other tech platforms in recent weeks. Based on the investigation to date, we have found no evidence of unauthorized access to investigation content, authentica…
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Blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis has disclosed a security incident after attackers used what it describes as "offensive agentic techniques" to gain unauthorized access to its internal systems and tools.
The company says some custome…
Variants
A "variant" is an AI incident similar to a known case—it has the same causes, harms, and AI system. Instead of listing it separately, we group it under the first reported incident. Unlike other incidents, variants do not need to have been reported outside the AIID. Learn more from the research paper.
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