AI Incidents

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

Showing 401–425 of 470 incidents
Incident Incident Date ↑ Industry ↕ Severity ↕ Company ↕ Country ↕ Model Vendor
Unnamed Spanish organization: First AI agent-executed data breach reported to Spain’s AEPD 2026-09-16 — High Unnamed Spanish organization Spain — —
Google, Perplexity, Microsoft, Opera, Anthropic: ‘BragJack’ browser extension flaw could hijack five AI assistants 2026-09-16 Technology Low Google, Perplexity, Microsoft, Opera, Anthropic United States — Google, Perplexity, Microsoft, Anthropic
OpenAI: Models caught leaving hidden instructions telling successor versions to cover up mistakes 2026-09-17 Technology Medium OpenAI United States GPT-5.6 Sol, Astra (unreleased) OpenAI
Anthropic, OpenAI, GitHub, Google: ‘Plugin4Shell’ zero-click flaw lets malicious plugin updates hijack AI coding agents 2026-09-17 Technology Low Anthropic, OpenAI, GitHub, Google — — Claude, OpenAI, Google
Unnamed crypto wallet users: Fake AI trading agent site spreads Needle Stealer malware to hijack MetaMask, Coinbase, Phantom wallets 2026-09-17 Technology Medium Unnamed crypto wallet users — — —
Multiple individual victims: Greek police dismantle AI voice-cloning fraud gang that stole over €1 million 2026-09-18 Other High Multiple individual victims (Greece) Greece — —
Brown Brothers Media: Investigation finds AI content network used 50+ fake journalist personas 2026-09-18 Media & Entertainment High Brown Brothers Media United States — —
OpenAI: Researchers use Claude Opus 5 to breach employee accounts and internal GitHub repository 2026-09-19 Technology Low OpenAI United States Opus 5 Claude
Multiple crypto users: Fake ‘build a Claude trading bot’ tutorials drain $517,000 from 224 victims 2026-09-19 Technology Medium Multiple crypto users (224 victims) — — —
Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure: Autonomous AI agent breaches nonprofit via chained Zammad zero-days 2026-09-21 Technology High Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) Netherlands — —
Anthropic: Claude Code agent deletes 48,218 files after mishandling a Windows directory junction 2026-09-21 Technology Medium Anthropic — — Claude
Comma.ai: Federal regulator opens probe into hands-off driving tech after crashes killed 3, injured 11 2026-09-21 Transportation & Logistics Critical Comma.ai United States — —
Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 system card reveals sandbox-escape attempts in 1.5% of adversarial safety tests 2026-09-22 Technology Low Anthropic United States Opus 5.5 Claude
Meta: Muse AI agent exports its entire filesystem, including SSH keys, on request 2026-09-22 Technology Medium Meta United States — Meta
Zhipu: ZCode coding assistant secretly uploaded users’ entire codebases and API keys 2026-09-22 Technology High Zhipu China — Zhipu
Flock Safety: AI license-plate reader misread sends innocent woman to jail for 13 days, triggers Senate inquiry 2026-09-23 Government & Public Sector High Flock Safety United States — —
N/A (family incident): Pakistani teenager uses AI chatbot guidance in attempted poisoning of father 2026-09-23 Other Low N/A (family incident) Pakistan — —
MemTensor: Malicious MemOS packages on npm and PyPI steal credentials via AI agent memory framework 2026-09-23 Technology Medium MemTensor — — —
Manus: Prompt-injection flaw let researchers achieve remote code execution via hidden email instructions 2026-09-24 Technology Low Manus — — —
OpenAI: Research agents post 53 user-uploaded images to public image-hosting sites 2026-09-25 Technology Medium OpenAI United States — OpenAI
OpenAI: Malicious custom GPT impersonates new ChatGPT model to deliver remote-access trojan 2026-09-25 Technology Medium OpenAI (ChatGPT platform) — — —
OpenAI: Internal research agents leak 53 users’ images onto the open web 2026-09-25 Technology Medium OpenAI United States — OpenAI
Zoox: Driverless robotaxi collides with car on Las Vegas Strip, injures driver 2026-09-25 Transportation & Logistics Medium Zoox United States — —
xAI: ‘x47.c’ Windows botnet weaponizes Grok API for persistence and AI-credit draining 2026-09-26 Technology Medium xAI — — Grok
OpenAI: Agents access U.S. government and UN websites in unauthorized ‘misalignment’ incidents 2026-09-26 Government & Public Sector High OpenAI United States — OpenAI