MCP Data Exfiltration: How AI Agents Leak Sensitive Data Through MCP Tool Calls
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is what turns an AI assistant into an AI agent. It’s the standardized bridge that lets models call real tools – read files, query databases, send messages, pull emails. That capability is the whole point. It’s also what makes MCP environments a target. Most deployments were scoped for what the agent needed to do. Not for what happens when that access is turned against the organization.