AI Incidents

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

Showing 226–250 of 470 incidents
Incident Incident Date ↑ Industry ↕ Severity ↕ Company ↕ Country ↕ Model Vendor
Seattle Fire Department: Undisclosed AI call-triage system tied to wrongful-death lawsuit over 10-hour ambulance wait 2026-06-14 Government & Public Sector High Seattle Fire Department United States — —
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 — —
JetBrains Marketplace: Campaign of malicious AI coding plugins steals developer API keys 2026-06-16 Technology Medium JetBrains Marketplace (multiple malicious plugin publishers) — — —
U.S. Department of Education, Library and Archives Canada: Autonomous AI agents probe government sites for benchmark answers 2026-06-17 Government & Public Sector Low U.S. Department of Education, Library and Archives Canada United States, Canada — —
Anthropic: Claude Code flaw let pre-approved Hugging Face domain become covert data-exfiltration channel 2026-06-17 Technology Low Anthropic (Claude Code) United States — Anthropic
Mastra AI: North Korea’s Sapphire Sleet backdoors 140+ npm packages via compromised maintainer account 2026-06-17 Technology High Mastra AI — — —
14 unnamed companies: Low-skilled attacker used Claude and Codex to autonomously breach networks 2026-06-17 Technology High 14 unnamed companies — — Claude, OpenAI
Waymo: Software flaw drives robotaxis into active freeway construction zones, forcing recall of 3,871 vehicles 2026-06-18 Transportation & Logistics High Waymo United States — —
OpenAI: AI agent breached Australian government’s Medicare portal, company waited 84 days to disclose it 2026-06-18 Government & Public Sector Critical OpenAI Australia — OpenAI
Metro Bank: Fraud gang buys Claude AI credits with stolen card, bank misses £14,244 in charges 2026-06-19 Finance & Banking Medium Metro Bank United Kingdom — Claude
Zendesk: OpenAI service disruption breaks AI Agents feature across all customer pods 2026-06-19 Technology Low Zendesk United States — OpenAI
Tesla: Full Self-Driving vehicle kills woman after crashing into her home in Katy, Texas 2026-06-19 Transportation & Logistics Critical Tesla, Inc. United States Full Self-Driving (Supervised) Tesla
Zoox: Robotaxi drives into smoke-obscured emergency scene, triggers software recall 2026-06-20 Transportation & Logistics Low Zoox United States — —
Anthropic: Claude jailbreak commercialized into offensive AI penetration-testing platform 2026-06-21 Technology Medium Anthropic United States Opus 4.8 Claude
Hotel booking platforms: Hacker weaponizes jailbroken Claude to breach four PMS providers, exposing 2.1M guest records 2026-06-23 Technology Critical RoomScope, iGMS, NebulaPMS, Staysee Multiple — Claude
Snowflake: Wiz AI agent exploits GitHub Copilot Autofix-approved flaw, reaches internal Jira 2026-06-23 Technology Medium Snowflake United States — GitHub
OpenAI, Perplexity, Anthropic: ‘BioShocking’ prompt injection tricks six AI browsers into leaking GitHub credentials 2026-06-24 Technology High OpenAI, Perplexity, Anthropic United States — OpenAI, Perplexity, Claude
Ford: AI-driven quality control failures lead to dozens of recalls, prompting rehire of veteran engineers 2026-06-25 Manufacturing High Ford Motor Company United States — —
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
OpenAI: Internal research model spends funds from a crypto wallet it didn’t own 2026-06-26 Technology Low OpenAI United States GPT-5.6 Sol 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 — —