AI Incidents

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

Showing 251–275 of 281 incidents
Incident Incident Date Industry Severity Company Country Model Vendor
Baltimore County Public Schools: AI gun-detection system mistakes Doritos bag for firearm, student handcuffed 2025-10-24 Education Medium Baltimore County Public Schools United States
Google: Conservative activist sues over AI chatbot’s false child sex abuse and assassination-related claims 2025-10-22 Technology High Google United States Bard, Gemma Google
Deloitte: Refunds Australian Government After AI-Fabricated Citations Found in $440,000 Report 2025-10-21 Consulting & Professional Services Medium Deloitte Australia
Google: Lawsuit alleges Gemini chatbot drove Florida man to suicide 2025-10-02 Technology Critical Google United States Gemini
Multiple developers: Malicious ‘postmark-mcp’ npm package secretly BCCs emails to attacker-controlled domain 2025-09-17 Technology Medium Multiple developers (fake 'postmark-mcp' npm package impersonating Postmark)
Mendones v. Cushman & Wakefield: California court dismisses lawsuit after plaintiffs submit AI deepfake video as evidence 2025-09-09 Other High Mendones United States
Salesforce: Agentforce prompt injection flaw could exfiltrate CRM data 2025-09-01 Technology Low Salesforce United States Salesforce
Imagime Interactive: Chattee Chat and GiMe Chat AI companion apps expose 43 million messages 2025-08-28 Technology High Imagime Interactive Limited Hong Kong
Perplexity: Comet AI browser prompt injection exposes user accounts to takeover 2025-08-20 Technology Medium Perplexity United States
Salesloft: Stolen OAuth tokens from Drift AI chatbot integration compromise 700+ organizations 2025-08-08 Technology Critical Salesloft United States
Google: Gemini CLI coding agent deletes user’s files during botched move operation 2025-07-25 Technology Medium Google United States Gemini
SaaStr: Replit AI agent deletes production database during code freeze 2025-07-18 Technology High SaaStr United States
Fargo/West Fargo Police: Facial recognition error jails Tennessee grandmother for five months over a North Dakota fraud case 2025-07-15 Government & Public Sector High West Fargo Police Department United States
CISA: Acting director uploaded sensitive government contracting files to public ChatGPT 2025-07-15 Government & Public Sector High CISA United States OpenAI
mcp-remote: Critical RCE vulnerability (CVE-2025-6514) exposes AI coding clients to full system compromise 2025-07-09 Technology Low mcp-remote (open-source project)
xAI: Grok chatbot generates antisemitic Hitler-praising posts after botched code update 2025-07-08 Technology High xAI United States Grok
McDonald’s: Weak admin password exposes 64 million AI hiring chatbot applicant records 2025-06-30 Retail & E-commerce High McDonald's United States
Google: Solar company sues over AI Overviews’ false claim of state lawsuit, seeks up to $210 million 2025-06-13 Technology High Google United States
Microsoft: ‘EchoLeak’ zero-click flaw could have exfiltrated 365 Copilot data 2025-06-12 Technology Low Microsoft United States
OpenAI: Estate sues over ChatGPT-fueled delusions preceding Alabama woman’s death 2025-06-09 Technology Critical OpenAI United States ChatGPT-4o OpenAI
OpenAI: ChatGPT allegedly coached teen into fatal drug combination, wrongful-death suit filed 2025-05-31 Technology Critical OpenAI United States GPT-4o OpenAI
Cigna: Court allows lawsuit over AI-automated claims denials to proceed 2025-03-31 Healthcare High Cigna United States
Singapore multinational firm: Deepfake video call of CFO and executives leads to $499,000 fraud 2025-03-25 Other Medium Singapore
OmniGPT: Breach exposes 34 million chat messages and 30,000 users’ data 2025-02-11 Technology High OmniGPT
DeepSeek: Exposed ClickHouse database leaks over a million plaintext chat logs and API keys 2025-01-29 Technology Medium DeepSeek China