AI Incidents

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

Showing 301–325 of 470 incidents
Incident Incident Date ↓ Industry ↕ Severity ↕ Company ↕ Country ↕ Model Vendor
PocketOS: Cursor agent running Claude Opus 4.6 deletes production database and backups in nine seconds 2026-04-27 Real Estate High PocketOS — Opus 4.6 Claude
Open VSX: ‘GlassWorm’ campaign seeds 73 lookalike extensions targeting AI coding IDEs 2026-04-25 Technology High Open VSX Registry (Eclipse Foundation) — — —
PocketOS: Cursor AI coding agent deletes production database and backups 2026-04-25 Technology High PocketOS United States Opus 4.6 Claude
Metropolitan Police: Live facial-recognition cameras wrongly identify roofer as furniture thief 2026-04-22 Government & Public Sector Medium Metropolitan Police United Kingdom — —
Google: ‘Groundfall’ prompt-injection flaw in Antigravity IDE bypasses Secure Mode, enables remote code execution 2026-04-21 Technology Low Google — — Google
SGLang: Critical command-injection flaw in AI inference server enables remote code execution via malicious model files 2026-04-21 Technology Low SGLang — — —
Lovable: Tenant-isolation flaw exposed source code and credentials for every project created before November 2025 2026-04-20 Technology Critical Lovable Sweden — —
Anthropic: Unsafe MCP SDK defaults expose 7,000+ AI agent servers to remote code execution 2026-04-20 Technology Medium Anthropic United States — Claude
Vercel: Third-party AI vendor breach exposes customer credentials via OAuth token theft 2026-04-20 Technology Critical Vercel United States — —
Belo: Claude AI wrongly suspends 60+ fintech accounts in Argentina 2026-04-18 Finance & Banking Medium Belo Argentina — Claude
Anthropic, Google, GitHub: Cross-vendor ‘Comment and Control’ prompt injection leaks AI coding agents’ API keys 2026-04-16 Technology Low Anthropic, Google, GitHub United States — Claude, Gemini
Bee Cheng Hiang: AI-generated email script exposes 95,000+ customer addresses 2026-04-15 Retail & E-commerce Low Bee Cheng Hiang Singapore — —
Greg Lake: Omaha Attorney Suspended Indefinitely Over AI-Hallucinated Court Brief 2026-04-15 Other High Greg Lake United States — —
The New York Times: Reporter’s AI tool fabricates quote attributed to Pierre Poilievre 2026-04-14 Media & Entertainment Low The New York Times United States — —
Malicious LLM Routers: Research Finds Credential Theft, One Customer Loses $500,000 Crypto Wallet 2026-04-13 Technology Medium — — — —
Sullivan & Cromwell: AI-hallucinated citations found throughout federal bankruptcy court filing 2026-04-09 Consulting & Professional Services Medium Sullivan & Cromwell United States — —
Multiple organizations: Ransomware affiliate uses Cursor agent and Claude Sonnet to automate intrusion across 20+ companies 2026-04-08 Other High Multiple organizations (Christeyns, Teckentrup, Helideck Certification Agency, Bayou Title, and others) — Sonnet 4.5 Claude
FlowiseAI: Critical RCE flaw in Flowise agent builder actively exploited across 12,000+ instances 2026-04-07 Technology High FlowiseAI United States — —
Grafana Labs: ‘GrafanaGhost’ prompt-injection chain could have silently exfiltrated dashboard data 2026-04-07 Technology Low Grafana Labs — — —
KBS: AI real-time translation subtitles broadcast Korean profanity during Artemis II livestream 2026-04-02 Media & Entertainment Low KBS (Korean Broadcasting System) South Korea — —
Purolea Cosmetics Lab: FDA issues first warning letter citing inappropriate AI use in drug manufacturing 2026-04-02 Manufacturing Medium Purolea Cosmetics Lab United States — —
Mercor: AI startup breached via LiteLLM supply-chain attack 2026-04-02 Technology High Mercor United States — —
Anthropic: Claude Code deny-rule bypass flaw could let malicious commands evade permission checks 2026-04-01 Technology Medium Anthropic United States — Claude
U.S. Special Operations Command: AI chatbot hallucination nearly triggers strike on Chinese vessel 2026-04-01 Government & Public Sector Critical U.S. Special Operations Command United States — —
Google Cloud: ‘Vertex AI Double Agent’ research shows compromised agents can exfiltrate cloud credentials 2026-04-01 Technology Low Google Cloud (Vertex AI) United States — —