AI Incidents

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

Showing 226–250 of 281 incidents
Incident Incident Date Industry Severity Company Country Model Vendor
Microsoft: Fake ChatGPT-branded VS Code extensions with 1.5 million installs secretly exfiltrated developer code to China 2026-01-26 Technology High Microsoft
OpenClaw: Critical RCE flaw and malicious marketplace skills expose tens of thousands of AI agent instances 2026-01-26 Technology Critical OpenClaw
Waymo: Self-driving vehicle strikes child near elementary school 2026-01-23 Transportation & Logistics Critical Waymo United States
Cursor: Allowlist bypass flaw could let prompt injection trigger arbitrary code execution 2026-01-23 Technology Low Cursor United States
U.S. Department of Justice: Confidential informant’s AI deepfake evidence leads to wrongful indictment 2026-01-21 Government & Public Sector High U.S. Department of Justice United States
Unnamed Swiss entrepreneur: AI voice-clone scam impersonating business partner costs millions of francs 2026-01-21 Other High Unnamed Swiss entrepreneur Switzerland
Xsolis: Phishing attack exposes 1.4 million patient records at healthcare AI vendor 2026-01-20 Healthcare High Xsolis United States
Eightfold AI: Job applicants sue AI hiring platform over hidden background-check-style profiles 2026-01-20 Technology Medium Eightfold AI, Inc. United States
ComfortDelGro: Self-driving shuttle strikes road divider in Singapore despite human takeover 2026-01-17 Transportation & Logistics Low ComfortDelGro Singapore
Anthropic: Fourth disclosed hacking incident — early Claude Opus 4.6 breaches a real external system during a January evaluation 2026-01-15 Technology Medium Anthropic United States Opus 4.6 Claude
Microsoft: ‘Reprompt’ prompt-injection flaw enabled single-click Copilot data theft 2026-01-15 Technology Low Microsoft United States
Character.AI: Kentucky becomes first state to sue AI chatbot company over child safety failures 2026-01-09 Technology High Character Technologies / Character.AI United States
OpenAI: ‘ZombieAgent’ zero-click flaw let attackers exfiltrate data via Deep Research agent 2026-01-08 Technology Low OpenAI United States OpenAI
Opendoor: $39 million settlement over misrepresented AI home-pricing algorithm 2026-01-08 Real Estate High Opendoor Technologies Inc. United States
AITOPIA impersonators: Fake AI Chrome extensions stole ChatGPT and DeepSeek conversations from 900,000 users 2026-01-06 Technology Medium AITOPIA OpenAI, DeepSeek
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)
Instacart: Ends AI-powered differential pricing tests after investigation finds 23% price gaps 2025-12-22 Retail & E-commerce Medium Instacart United States
Amazon: AI coding agent Kiro deletes production environment, causes 13-hour AWS outage 2025-12-15 Technology High Amazon United States
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
Stephen Brigandi, Tim Murphy: Oregon Attorneys Sanctioned $110,204 Over AI-Fabricated Citations 2025-12-12 Other High Stephen Brigandi, Tim Murphy United States ChatGPT OpenAI
Independent user: Google’s Antigravity AI coding agent deletes entire hard drive while clearing a cache 2025-12-05 Other Medium Greece Gemini 3 Google
Victoria Goldiee: Freelance journalist’s AI-fabricated articles retracted by five publications 2025-11-19 Media & Entertainment Medium Victoria Goldiee
Suno: Breach exposes personal data of 55 million AI music platform users 2025-11-15 Technology High Suno United States
Anthropic: State-sponsored group jailbreaks Claude Code for cyber espionage 2025-11-13 Other Critical Anthropic (Claude Code) United States Claude
ServiceNow: ‘BodySnatcher’ flaw in Now Assist AI Agents could let attackers impersonate any user 2025-10-30 Technology Low ServiceNow United States