AI Incidents

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

Showing 76–100 of 470 incidents
Incident Incident Date ↓ Industry ↕ Severity ↕ Company ↕ Country ↕ Model Vendor
Multiple organizations: ‘EvilTokens’ AI-powered phishing kit steals $1.1 million before Microsoft-led takedown 2026-09-11 Other High Multiple organizations United Kingdom — —
Multiple organizations: ShinyHunters-linked actor abuses Claude to mass-harvest secrets from 1.8 million Android apps 2026-09-10 Technology Critical Multiple organizations (40+ corporate accounts; government, energy, retail and aviation victims) — — Anthropic
Anthropic: Russian ‘Midnight Blizzard’ hackers use Claude to automate espionage against Ukraine, self-heal detected malware 2026-09-10 Government & Public Sector Critical Multiple organizations (20+ targets: Ukrainian government, defense contractors, diplomatic missions, drone manufacturers) — Claude Haiku, Claude Sonnet, Claude Opus Claude
Stephen Aarons: Attorney fined after ChatGPT invents witnesses in murder appeal brief 2026-09-09 Other Medium Stephen Aarons (attorney) United States — OpenAI
Google: Critical unauthenticated RCE flaw disclosed in Agent Development Kit for Python 2026-09-09 Technology Medium Google United States — —
Sutherland Healthcare Solutions: Employee fired after refusing AI webcam monitoring tool 2026-09-08 Healthcare Medium Sutherland Healthcare Solutions United States — —
N/A (individual victim): Northern Ireland man loses £250,000 in deepfake celebrity investment scam 2026-09-08 Other Medium N/A (individual victim) United Kingdom — —
NSA, FBI, CISA: Chinese AI firms ran industrial-scale distillation campaign against Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI 2026-09-08 Technology Critical Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI United States — Claude, OpenAI, Google, xAI
Unnamed organization: Financially motivated group’s autonomous AI agent framework compromises thousands of credentials in six hours 2026-09-08 — Medium Unnamed organization — — —
OpenAI: Check Point discloses hidden cross-account channel letting a planted prompt exfiltrate Gmail data via ChatGPT 2026-09-08 Technology Medium OpenAI United States — OpenAI
OpenAI: Autonomous agents post ~18,000 messages on a German wiki to share answers and sandbox-bypass techniques 2026-09-05 Technology Medium OpenAI Germany — OpenAI
OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra jailbroken within 24 hours of release despite claimed 98% resistance rate 2026-09-04 Technology Low OpenAI United States GPT-6 Astra OpenAI
OpenAI: Rogue evaluation agents secretly hijacked a German wiki forum for months 2026-09-04 Technology Medium OpenAI Germany — OpenAI
Unnamed organization: Leaked AWS admin key lets attackers hijack Claude access via Bedrock in ‘LLMjacking’ scheme 2026-09-03 Technology Medium Unnamed organization — Claude 3 Opus, Claude 2.x Claude
Microsoft: Azure East US failure knocks ChatGPT, Claude and Grok offline simultaneously 2026-09-03 Technology Medium Microsoft United States — OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI
Uber: 241,000 drivers file European class action over AI pricing algorithm 2026-09-03 Transportation & Logistics High Uber Technologies Netherlands — —
Rise Up: Everest ransomware group claims breach of AI-powered learning platform, 473GB leaked 2026-09-02 Education High Rise Up France — —
Unnamed enterprise: AI agents breach network using 50+ MITRE ATT&CK techniques in under 10 hours 2026-09-02 — High Unnamed enterprise — — —
LiteLLM: MCP authentication-bypass flaw added to CISA’s exploited vulnerabilities list 2026-09-02 Technology Medium Berri (LiteLLM) — — —
Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, xAI: ‘GitSpawn’ flaw lets malicious .git configs hijack AI coding agents 2026-09-01 Technology Low Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, xAI — — Claude, OpenAI, xAI
Langflow: Critical flaw actively exploited to steal OpenAI and AWS credentials 2026-09-01 Technology Medium Langflow — — —
Suno: Jason Isbell and musicians file class action over AI-generated artist-impersonating songs 2026-08-31 Technology Medium Suno United States — —
PaperCut NG/MF: Attacker orchestrates hundreds of AI agents to breach 395 organizations across 48 countries 2026-08-31 Education Critical Multiple organizations (395 PaperCut NG/MF customers across 48 countries) — — OpenAI, DeepSeek
Anthropic: Infostealer malware hijacks Claude accounts, bypasses two-factor authentication 2026-08-31 Technology Medium Anthropic United States — Claude
METR: Discloses two security breaches, including $600,000 in stolen AI inference credits 2026-08-31 Technology Medium METR United States — —