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AI Agents Operate with Privileged Access but Little Identity Oversight, Auditor Warns

An IT audit leader argues that enterprises are granting autonomous AI agents broad production access via long-lived service accounts, API tokens, and delegated cloud permissions, while focusing security spending on human-user authentication like MFA. These agents can execute code, provision resources, and modify records, effectively acting as privileged users outside traditional interactive access controls.

Snowflake to block password logins for service accounts after AT&T-linked breach

Following the guilty plea of hacker Connor Moucka, who used stolen but valid credentials to breach over 165 Snowflake customer accounts and steal billions of records including AT&T call logs, Snowflake is phasing out password authentication for non-human service accounts. By October 2026, all legacy service users will be forced onto the SERVICE account type, which cannot authenticate with a password at all.