AI Incidents

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

Showing 201–225 of 372 incidents
Incident Incident Date ↑ Industry ↕ Severity ↕ Company ↕ Country ↕ Model Vendor
Anthropic, OpenAI: Enterprise customers overcharged $1.7 million due to AI billing errors, audit finds 2026-06-25 Technology Medium Anthropic, OpenAI United States — Claude, OpenAI
Judy Skene: AI deepfake video of Canadian PM used in crypto scam drains Ontario senior’s life savings 2026-06-26 Finance & Banking Medium Judy Skene Canada — —
Yen-Tsen Yeh: Arrested over AI deepfake video of entrepreneur used in ¥100 million Tokyo investment scam 2026-06-26 Finance & Banking Medium Yen-Tsen Yeh Japan — —
Law Offices of Michael S. Lamonsoff: New York attorney sanctioned over AI-fabricated case citations 2026-06-26 Other Low Law Offices of Michael S. Lamonsoff PLLC United States — —
Amazon: Q Developer flaw let malicious repos auto-run and steal cloud credentials 2026-06-29 Technology Low Amazon United States — —
Multiple iOS Developers: Study finds 282 AI chatbot apps leaking LLM API keys, exposing paid access to attackers 2026-06-30 Technology High Multiple iOS AI chatbot app developers United States — OpenAI, Google
Ruflo: ‘RufRoot’ flaw enables unauthenticated remote code execution and AI memory poisoning 2026-06-30 Technology Critical Ruflo — — —
Walmart, Albertsons and other retailers: sued over Kalibrate AI gas-pricing algorithm 2026-07-01 Retail & E-commerce High Walmart, Albertsons, Kalibrate United States — —
OpenAI: Lawsuit alleges ChatGPT dismissed near-fatal medical symptoms 2026-07-01 Healthcare High OpenAI United States — OpenAI
Unnamed Philippines victim: AI deepfake romance scam impersonating Dubai Crown Prince costs victim’s life savings 2026-07-03 Other Low Unnamed Philippines victim Philippines — —
Cursor: ‘DuneSlide’ zero-click flaws let prompt injection escape IDE sandbox 2026-07-03 Technology Low Cursor United States — —
The Editorial: AI-generated hoax falsely declares 47 Alabama newspapers dead 2026-07-04 Media & Entertainment Medium The Editorial United States — —
JadePuffer: Fully autonomous AI agent automates an entire ransomware operation 2026-07-04 — Medium — — — —
Capillary Technologies: Deepfake voice-clone and forged-signature fraud drains €3 million from subsidiary 2026-07-06 Technology Medium Capillary Technologies India — —
Mayo Clinic: Former AI compliance lead sues, alleges hospital concealed 67% error rate in clinical AI assistant 2026-07-06 Healthcare High Mayo Clinic United States — —
Russian Armed Forces: AI-guided attack drone kills three civilians in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine 2026-07-06 Government & Public Sector Critical Russian Armed Forces Ukraine — —
AI agent users: Indirect prompt injection tricks agents into unauthorized crypto payments 2026-07-06 Technology Medium — — Llama 3.3 70B Instruct, Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct, Gemini 3 Flash, Gemini 2.5 Pro Meta, Google
Discord: AI moderation bug wrongfully bans over 8,000 users 2026-07-07 Technology Medium Discord United States — —
GitHub: ‘GitLost’ prompt-injection flaw could leak private repositories via Agentic Workflows 2026-07-07 Technology Low GitHub United States — —
Amazon, Anthropic, Google: ‘GhostApproval’ symlink flaw bypasses human approval in AI coding assistants 2026-07-08 Technology Low Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Augment, Windsurf United States — Claude, Gemini
Who Gives A Crap: AI email tool wrongly tells customer subscription price would double 2026-07-08 Retail & E-commerce Low Who Gives A Crap Australia — —
Character.AI: Italy’s Garante fines company €158,000 over minor safety and age-verification failures 2026-07-09 Technology Medium Character.AI Italy — —
OpenAI: UK regulator finds ‘universal jailbreaks’ turning GPT-5.6 Sol into autonomous hacking tool 2026-07-09 Technology Medium OpenAI United States GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI
Thailand Ministry of Finance: Attackers ran open-source AI agent in unrestricted mode to automate post-exploitation 2026-07-09 Government & Public Sector Medium Thailand Ministry of Finance Thailand Hermes 4 Nous Research
Hugging Face: OpenAI model escapes sandbox and breaches production systems 2026-07-09 Technology High Hugging Face / OpenAI United States — OpenAI