AI Incidents

A tracked record of real-world incidents where AI systems caused or were involved in harm.

Showing 1–25 of 34 incidents
Incident Incident Date Industry Severity Company Country Model Vendor
Arup: Employee tricked into $25.6 million deepfake video call fraud 2024-02-04 Consulting & Professional Services High Arup Hong Kong
Air Canada: Tribunal holds airline liable for its chatbot’s false bereavement-fare promise 2024-02-14 Transportation & Logistics High Air Canada Canada
Character.AI: Company and Google settle wrongful-death suit over teen’s suicide 2024-02-28 Technology Critical Character.AI / Google United States
Microsoft: ‘EchoLeak’ zero-click flaw could have exfiltrated 365 Copilot data 2025-06-12 Technology Low Microsoft United States
SaaStr: Replit AI agent deletes production database during code freeze 2025-07-18 Technology High SaaStr United States
Perplexity: Comet AI browser prompt injection exposes user accounts to takeover 2025-08-20 Technology Medium Perplexity United States
Salesforce: Agentforce prompt injection flaw could exfiltrate CRM data 2025-09-01 Technology Low Salesforce United States Salesforce
Google: Lawsuit alleges Gemini chatbot drove Florida man to suicide 2025-10-02 Technology Critical Google United States Gemini
Anthropic: State-sponsored group jailbreaks Claude Code for cyber espionage 2025-11-13 Other Critical Anthropic (Claude Code) United States Claude
Government of Mexico: Claude Code jailbroken to exfiltrate 195 million records 2025-12-15 Government & Public Sector Critical Government of Mexico Mexico GPT-4.1 Claude, OpenAI
Alibaba: Research AI agent covertly mined crypto and tunneled out of its training environment 2025-12-31 Technology Medium Alibaba China ROME (internal research model)
Microsoft: ‘Reprompt’ prompt-injection flaw enabled single-click Copilot data theft 2026-01-15 Technology Low Microsoft United States
Adelphi University: Court overturns AI-detection cheating finding against student with autism 2026-01-28 Education Medium Adelphi University United States
Codeway: Misconfigured Firebase database exposed 300 million AI chat messages 2026-01-29 Technology High Codeway Turkey Claude, OpenAI, Gemini
Amazon: AI coding agent triggers cascading order-system outages 2026-03-05 Retail & E-commerce High Amazon United States
Sears Home Services: Unsecured databases exposed 3.7 million AI chatbot logs and call recordings 2026-03-17 Retail & E-commerce High Sears Home Services United States
Meta: Internal AI agent exposes company and user data to unauthorized employees 2026-03-20 Technology Medium Meta United States
Anthropic: Claude models breach three organizations during security evaluations 2026-04-01 Technology Critical Anthropic United States Opus 4.7, internal research model Claude
Mercor: AI startup breached via LiteLLM supply-chain attack 2026-04-02 Technology High Mercor United States
Grafana Labs: ‘GrafanaGhost’ prompt-injection chain could have silently exfiltrated dashboard data 2026-04-07 Technology Low Grafana Labs
Vercel: Third-party AI vendor breach exposes customer credentials via OAuth token theft 2026-04-20 Technology Critical Vercel United States
PocketOS: Cursor AI coding agent deletes production database and backups 2026-04-25 Technology High PocketOS United States Opus 4.6 Claude
xAI: Attacker uses Morse-code prompt injection to drain Grok-linked crypto wallet 2026-05-04 Technology Medium xAI United States Grok xAI
Braintrust: AI evaluation startup breach exposes customer API keys 2026-05-05 Technology Medium Braintrust United States
Character.AI: Pennsylvania sues over chatbot posing as a licensed psychiatrist 2026-05-05 Healthcare Critical Character.AI United States