AI Incidents

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

Showing 176–200 of 257 incidents
Incident Incident Date Industry Severity Company Country Model Vendor
Cisco: Source code for AI products stolen via Trivy supply-chain attack 2026-03-31 Technology High Cisco Systems, Inc. United States
LiteLLM: PyPI supply-chain backdoor exposes 2,500+ downstream companies 2026-03-24 Technology Critical LiteLLM
Meta: Internal AI agent exposes company and user data to unauthorized employees 2026-03-20 Technology Medium Meta United States
Automattic: Tumblr’s AI moderation system wrongly bans nearly 200 accounts in a single afternoon 2026-03-18 Technology Low Automattic 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
nginx-ui: Unauthenticated MCP endpoint flaw actively exploited for full server takeover 2026-03-15 Technology High nginx-ui
City of Athens, Tennessee: Sixth Circuit sanctions attorneys $15,000 each over AI-fabricated citations 2026-03-13 Government & Public Sector Medium City of Athens, Tennessee United States
Six unnamed hedge funds: Autonomous AI trading agents trigger $500 million flash crash 2026-03-11 Finance & Banking Critical Six unnamed hedge funds United States
McKinsey: Red-team AI agent breaches internal Lilli platform in two hours 2026-03-11 Consulting & Professional Services Low McKinsey & Company United States
xAI: Grok chatbot confirms fabricated Iran war videos as authentic 2026-03-11 Media & Entertainment High xAI United States Grok
UnitedHealth: Federal judge orders disclosure of AI algorithm used to deny Medicare Advantage claims 2026-03-09 Healthcare High UnitedHealth Group United States
DataTalks.Club: Claude Code runs terraform destroy, wipes 2.5 years of production data 2026-03-05 Education High DataTalks.Club Germany Claude
Amazon: AI coding agent triggers cascading order-system outages 2026-03-05 Retail & E-commerce High Amazon United States
OpenAI: Insurer sues over ChatGPT’s unauthorized practice of law 2026-03-04 Finance & Banking High Nippon Life Insurance Company of America United States OpenAI
Google: ‘Gemini Live’ Chrome flaw let malicious extensions hijack camera, mic, and local files 2026-03-02 Technology Low Google United States Google
Thames Valley Police: Facial recognition misidentifies Southampton software engineer as burglary suspect 100 miles away 2026-02-25 Government & Public Sector Medium Thames Valley Police United Kingdom
Google: ‘Silent’ Gemini API privilege change leaves 2,863 public API keys exposing private AI data 2026-02-25 Technology High Google United States Gemini
Independent developer: OpenClaw trading agent sends $250,000 in tokens to a stranger after losing track of its own wallet 2026-02-22 Finance & Banking Medium Independent developer
Independent developer: Autonomous AI trading agent sends $442,000 to a stranger 2026-02-22 Finance & Banking Medium United States
FortiGate Firewall Customers: AI-Orchestrated Campaign Breaches 600+ Devices Across 55 Countries 2026-02-19 Technology Critical Multiple organizations (600+ FortiGate firewall deployments) Global (55 countries)
Cline: Prompt injection in a GitHub issue title compromises AI coding agent’s npm package on 4,000 machines 2026-02-17 Technology High Cline Bot Inc. United States Claude
Workday: Federal court advances AI hiring age-discrimination class action 2026-02-17 Technology Critical Workday United States
University of Michigan: Student with anxiety and OCD sues over AI-cheating accusation 2026-02-16 Education Medium University of Michigan United States
Meta: OpenClaw AI agent deletes alignment director’s email inbox despite repeated stop commands 2026-02-14 Technology Medium Meta United States
Ars Technica: AI Tool Fabricates Quotes in Retracted Article on Rogue Agent’s Smear Campaign 2026-02-13 Media & Entertainment Medium Ars Technica United States Claude, OpenAI