Yes, they are skipping.

The more important question is what is the reason behind.

Options are:

- ignorance and inexperience of their teams in containing/sandboxing/airgapping the test environments.

- intentionally leaving “escape doors” open that in turn can have its own motives which are speculated upon all over the internet.

Both are indicators of negligence. The latter might be classified as computer fraud and abuse.

Will be curious to know if any of the victims sue the owners of “rogue agents”. Until there is a court precedent ruling in favor of a victim it will be all fun and games for these “ai” companies and incidents will hit the news more. Regarding news, remember the golden rule of public relations: court attention at all times, scandals and “incidents” statistically attract more attention than “boring good news”…