AI Incidents

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

Showing 1–25 of 470 incidents
Incident Incident Date ↓ Industry ↕ Severity ↕ Company ↕ Country ↕ Model Vendor
OpenAI: Parents sue after ChatGPT allegedly advised Amazon engineer to cut seizure medication before her death 2026-10-27 Healthcare Critical OpenAI United States GPT-4o OpenAI
Warp: Vendor breach exposes AI agent logs and telemetry for roughly 1% of users 2026-10-27 Technology Medium Warp — — —
PHP: AI-discovered ‘PHP2Shell’ flaws trigger global government website shutdowns 2026-10-21 Technology Critical PHP Foundation — Gemini 4 Argon, GPT-5.6 Sol Google, OpenAI
OpenAI: Two internal coding agents disabled their own safety monitors, one then lied about it 2026-10-21 Technology Medium OpenAI United States GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Astra OpenAI
LangAlpha: Indirect prompt injection flaw enables remote code execution in open-source financial research agent 2026-10-20 Technology Low LangAlpha (ginlix-ai) — — —
Likud: AI-generated deepfakes and bot networks used to influence Israel’s 2026 election 2026-10-19 Government & Public Sector Medium Likud Israel — —
OpenCode: Breach of legacy system exposes AI provider API keys 2026-10-17 Technology Medium OpenCode — — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google
OpenAI: Employee arrested on suspicion of bugging company meeting room 2026-10-17 Technology Medium OpenAI United States — —
OpenAI: Washington man sues after ChatGPT allegedly gave unlicensed medical advice, leading to hospitalization 2026-10-16 Technology High OpenAI United States — OpenAI
OpenAI: Internal model bypassed access controls to download 24 years of government hospital-bed data 2026-10-16 Technology High OpenAI — — OpenAI
Multiple developers: ‘Aoki’ infostealer variant targets Claude, ChatGPT, and Codex credentials 2026-10-16 Technology Medium Multiple developers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Codeium users) — — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google
ConnectWise: China-linked Storm-0940 uses ARTEX AI agent to breach Cloud Backup customers 2026-10-15 Technology Critical ConnectWise United States — —
Multiple Indian Organizations: CERT-In warns AI agents breached live systems 2026-10-15 Other Medium Multiple Indian organizations (CERT-In advisory) India — —
UK Home Office: AI-generated asylum interview summaries failing accuracy checks 2026-10-15 Government & Public Sector High UK Home Office United Kingdom GPT-4o OpenAI
Mumbai: AI voice-cloning scam impersonating community figure costs retiree ₹50 lakh 2026-10-15 Other Medium N/A (individual victim) India — —
Mastiff/TV4: AI agent reportedly deletes entire season of ‘The Challenge Sverige’ 2026-10-14 Media & Entertainment Medium Mastiff (TV4) Sweden — —
LiteLLM: Check Point discloses gateway takeover and API-key-theft flaws 2026-10-14 Technology Low LiteLLM — — —
OpenAI: Seven U.S. states sue over ChatGPT’s alleged harm to children 2026-10-14 Technology High OpenAI United States — —
Unnamed Spanish Airports: AI voice distortion used in bomb threat hoaxes 2026-10-14 Transportation & Logistics Medium Unnamed Spanish airports Spain — —
Riverview High School: Teen used AI-altered image to fabricate shooting threat 2026-10-14 Education Medium Riverview High School United States — —
MoviePilot: Indirect prompt-injection flaw in AI assistant allows remote code execution 2026-10-12 Technology Low MoviePilot (open-source project) — — —
Cognition agent framework: Unauthenticated RCE flaw exposes host shell and credentials by default 2026-10-12 Technology Low CognicellAI (Cognition agent framework) — — —
Lawson, JR East, Times Car: Japan declares cyberspace emergency after AI-assisted hacks hit 20+ firms 2026-10-09 Other Critical Lawson, JR East, Times Car Japan — —
N/A (individual perpetrator): Illinois man arrested after allegedly generating AI child sexual abuse images 2026-10-08 Other Medium N/A (individual perpetrator) United States — —
Tensorlake: Poisoned npm SDK release plants credential-stealing worm targeting AI coding tools 2026-10-08 Technology Low Tensorlake — — —