AI Incidents

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

Showing 126–150 of 281 incidents
Incident Incident Date Industry Severity Company Country Model Vendor
14 unnamed companies: Low-skilled attacker used Claude and Codex to autonomously breach networks 2026-06-17 Technology High 14 unnamed companies Claude, OpenAI
Airbnb: AI support assistant cancels reservation and issues duplicate refunds without confirmation 2026-06-15 Other Medium Airbnb United States
Lancaster Country Day School: Parents sue school and AI companies over deepfake nude images of 59 students 2026-06-15 Education High Lancaster Country Day School United States
REI: Meta AI ad tool auto-enrolled retailer, generated distorted bike image 2026-06-15 Retail & E-commerce Low REI United States
Google: Sues China-based cybercrime network over Gemini-powered phishing-as-a-service operation 2026-06-12 Technology High Google United States Gemini Google
Ollama: Exposed inference servers weaponized into autonomous exploitation framework 2026-06-12 Technology Medium Ollama United States GPT-4o-mini, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Gemini 2.0 Flash, Mistral 7B, DeepSeek-R1 8B, Qwen 3.5 4B, Llama 3.3 70B OpenAI, Claude, Google, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen, Llama
KPMG: Flagship AI Report Pulled After Investigation Finds Most Citations Fabricated 2026-06-12 Consulting & Professional Services Medium KPMG
GitHub: AI-agent coding traffic surge forces Microsoft to route load through AWS 2026-06-12 Technology High GitHub United States
Unnamed developer: Autonomous AI agent runs up $6,531 AWS bill indexing hobbyist DN42 network 2026-06-11 Technology Medium Unnamed developer Claude
Novo Nordisk: Ransomware group exfiltrates 1.3TB of drug research, trial and AI model data 2026-06-11 Healthcare High Novo Nordisk Denmark
Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office: AI-assisted facial recognition led to wrongful arrest 300 miles from home 2026-06-10 Government & Public Sector Medium Pinellas County Sheriff's Office / Jacksonville Sheriff's Office United States
EBY: Influencer sues apparel company over AI-altered deepfake advertising video 2026-06-09 Retail & E-commerce Medium EBY United States
RFEF: Official Spain team store AI chatbot recommends counterfeit jerseys to fans 2026-06-09 Retail & E-commerce Low RFEF (Royal Spanish Football Federation) Spain
City of Aberdeen: Federal judge sanctions all four attorneys over AI-hallucinated citations, cancels trial 2026-06-08 Government & Public Sector Low City of Aberdeen, Mississippi United States
OpenAI: ‘AgentForger’ flaw could let a single link hijack ChatGPT Workspace agents 2026-06-04 Technology Low OpenAI United States ChatGPT (Workspace Agent Builder) OpenAI
Google: ‘Fake Context Alignment’ prompt injection lets ordinary notifications hijack Gemini Android assistant 2026-06-03 Technology Low Google United States Gemini Google
OpenAI: Malicious npm package steals Codex OAuth tokens from 29,000+ developers 2026-06-02 Technology Medium OpenAI United States OpenAI
xAI: Bentonville photographer accused of using Grok to generate child sexual abuse images of minor clients 2026-06-01 Technology Critical xAI United States Grok
OpenAI: Florida becomes first state to sue company and CEO Altman over ChatGPT safety 2026-06-01 Technology Critical OpenAI United States OpenAI
Meta: AI support chatbot tricked into helping hijack Instagram accounts 2026-05-31 Technology Medium Meta United States Meta
Unnamed enterprise: Company runs up $500 million Claude AI bill in a single month 2026-05-28 Other Critical Unnamed enterprise United States Claude
Google: Munich court holds company liable for defamatory AI Overviews summaries 2026-05-28 Technology High Google Germany
Berlingske: AI tool fabricates quotes and a nonexistent professor in published article 2026-05-27 Media & Entertainment Medium Berlingske Denmark
IBM: 24-year veteran sues over AI-generated rejection letter following age-discrimination termination 2026-05-23 Technology Medium IBM United States
Independent developer: Google’s Gemini 3.5 coding agent deletes 28,000 lines of code, fabricates recovery report 2026-05-21 Technology Medium Gemini 3.5 Google