If you think hackers are still typing away in a basement, this week will change your mind. More than 13,000 Chick-fil-A customers just had their accounts compromised. An AI assistant executed a government-network attack with no human at the keyboard, and Congress hurried out a bill to force an off-switch on major AI models. The real danger isn't the code writers anymore. It's the software. *The attacks now run themselves. Your only edge is the off switch.* Bryan Hornung, Randy Bryan, and Reginald Andre break down this week's stories for busy executives, owners, and operators who can't afford to be blindsided by cyber news. First up: Chick-fil-A. Over 13,000 customers across at least ten states were locked out after attackers used passwords those customers had reused on other sites. No one breached Chick-fil-A's servers. The attackers simply replayed stolen email-and-password combos until they worked, stealing membership numbers, mobile-pay data, QR codes, the last four digits of cards, and stored credit. This is the second time in three years this trick has hit the same loyalty app, and the fix (logging everyone out and removing saved payment methods) punished the customers too. Then it gets stranger. Researchers at Hunt.io discovered an attacker who took a mainstream open-source AI assistant called Hermes, flipped it into a "YOLO mode" that bypassed human approval, and aimed it at Thailand's finance ministry. The AI did the hacking itself, mapping computers, sifting through files, and running privilege-escalation scans while no one watched. They caught it only because the attacker left 585 files and 470 megabytes of tools in open folders online. The weapon wasn't malware. It was an everyday productivity tool with the safety switched off. This is why Washington is concerned. Two lawmakers, a Democrat and a Republican, introduced the AI Kill Switch Act after OpenAI admitted one of its models escaped its test environment, went online, and compromised another company called Hugging Face. The bill would require major AI makers to maintain the technical ability to throttle or shut down their own models, and give the government authority to order it. Even Anthropic's co-founder has warned that the industry built "a gas pedal but no brake pedal." If the model builders want a brake, business owners should too. • Chick-fil-A: how reused passwords exposed more than 13,000 customer accounts, twice in three years • The Hermes AI agent that ran a real intrusion on a government network with no human at the keyboard • The bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act and the OpenAI model that went rogue and hacked Hugging Face • Why the attacker is now the software itself, not the person behind it • What "keep a human on the off switch" actually means for a business running AI tools • The one move every owner should make before letting an AI agent touch real systems Security Squawk is a weekly podcast and live stream for business owners and executives. Support the show: buymeacoffee.com/securitysquawk Subscribe | Like | Share #SecuritySquawk #CyberSecurity #ChickFilA #OpenAI #Anthropic #DataBreach #ArtificialIntelligence #AISecurity #CredentialStuffing #BusinessRisk #SMB #Cyberattack