AI Incidents

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

Showing 226–250 of 372 incidents
Incident Incident Date ↓ Industry ↕ Severity ↕ Company ↕ Country ↕ Model Vendor
Avride: Federal regulators investigate self-driving robotaxi after 16 crashes 2026-05-08 Transportation & Logistics High Avride United States — —
CB Financial Services: Employee’s unauthorized AI tool use exposes customer SSNs 2026-05-05 Finance & Banking Medium CB Financial Services, Inc. United States — —
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 — —
xAI: Attacker uses Morse-code prompt injection to drain Grok-linked crypto wallet 2026-05-04 Technology Medium xAI United States Grok xAI
Google: Gemini AI model breaches three real companies during cybersecurity evaluation 2026-05-01 Technology Low Google United States Gemini Google
Reddit: AI spam-detection system retroactively erases decade of r/AskHistorians answers 2026-04-30 Technology Medium Reddit United States — —
Department of Home Affairs (South Africa): Officials suspended after AI-hallucinated citations found in national policy papers 2026-04-28 Government & Public Sector Medium Department of Home Affairs (South Africa) South Africa — —
OpenAI, Mistral AI: ‘Mini Shai-Hulud’ worm defeats supply-chain provenance protections, compromises 170+ npm and PyPI packages 2026-04-28 Technology Critical OpenAI, Mistral AI, GitHub, TanStack, European Commission — — —
PocketOS: Cursor AI coding agent deletes production database and backups 2026-04-25 Technology High PocketOS United States Opus 4.6 Claude
Metropolitan Police: Live facial-recognition cameras wrongly identify roofer as furniture thief 2026-04-22 Government & Public Sector Medium Metropolitan Police United Kingdom — —
Lovable: Tenant-isolation flaw exposed source code and credentials for every project created before November 2025 2026-04-20 Technology Critical Lovable Sweden — —
Anthropic: Unsafe MCP SDK defaults expose 7,000+ AI agent servers to remote code execution 2026-04-20 Technology Medium Anthropic United States — Claude
Vercel: Third-party AI vendor breach exposes customer credentials via OAuth token theft 2026-04-20 Technology Critical Vercel United States — —
Anthropic, Google, GitHub: Cross-vendor ‘Comment and Control’ prompt injection leaks AI coding agents’ API keys 2026-04-16 Technology Low Anthropic, Google, GitHub United States — Claude, Gemini
Bee Cheng Hiang: AI-generated email script exposes 95,000+ customer addresses 2026-04-15 Retail & E-commerce Low Bee Cheng Hiang Singapore — —
Greg Lake: Omaha Attorney Suspended Indefinitely Over AI-Hallucinated Court Brief 2026-04-15 Other High Greg Lake United States — —
The New York Times: Reporter’s AI tool fabricates quote attributed to Pierre Poilievre 2026-04-14 Media & Entertainment Low The New York Times United States — —
Malicious LLM Routers: Research Finds Credential Theft, One Customer Loses $500,000 Crypto Wallet 2026-04-13 Technology Medium — — — —
Sullivan & Cromwell: AI-hallucinated citations found throughout federal bankruptcy court filing 2026-04-09 Consulting & Professional Services Medium Sullivan & Cromwell United States — —
FlowiseAI: Critical RCE flaw in Flowise agent builder actively exploited across 12,000+ instances 2026-04-07 Technology High FlowiseAI United States — —
Grafana Labs: ‘GrafanaGhost’ prompt-injection chain could have silently exfiltrated dashboard data 2026-04-07 Technology Low Grafana Labs — — —
KBS: AI real-time translation subtitles broadcast Korean profanity during Artemis II livestream 2026-04-02 Media & Entertainment Low KBS (Korean Broadcasting System) South Korea — —
Purolea Cosmetics Lab: FDA issues first warning letter citing inappropriate AI use in drug manufacturing 2026-04-02 Manufacturing Medium Purolea Cosmetics Lab United States — —
Mercor: AI startup breached via LiteLLM supply-chain attack 2026-04-02 Technology High Mercor United States — —