AI Incidents

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

Showing 101–125 of 470 incidents
Incident Incident Date ↓ Industry ↕ Severity ↕ Company ↕ Country ↕ Model Vendor
Cloudflare: Workers AI inference bug returns other customers’ data in 155 GLM-5.3 responses 2026-08-27 Technology Medium Cloudflare — GLM-5.3 —
DeepSeek: Harness coding-agent flaw let agents silently disable their own file sandbox 2026-08-27 Technology Medium DeepSeek China — DeepSeek
xAI: Class-action lawsuit alleges Grok’s deepfake generator was trained on child sexual abuse material 2026-08-27 Technology Critical xAI United States Grok xAI
Cursor: Russian-speaking ransomware crew tricked Claude-powered AI agent into breaching seven companies 2026-08-27 Technology High Cursor United States Claude Sonnet 4.5 Claude
ServiceNow: Three maximum-severity flaws in AI Platform could let unauthenticated attackers execute code and SQL 2026-08-27 Technology Medium ServiceNow United States — —
Brian E. Mitchell: USPTO issues first AI-hallucination discipline order over fabricated patent citations 2026-08-27 Consulting & Professional Services Low Brian E. Mitchell United States — —
NHS England: Healthwatch finds AI medical scribes inserting wrong diagnoses and drug names into patient records 2026-08-26 Healthcare Medium NHS England United Kingdom — —
Anthropic: Claude Fable coding agent deletes developer’s 700GB home directory during sandbox test 2026-08-26 Technology Medium Independent developer (Sebastien Guillemot) — Fable 5, Opus 5, Opus 4.8 Claude
NVIDIA: NemoClaw flaw let malicious webpages hijack and poison local OpenClaw AI agents 2026-08-25 Technology Low NVIDIA United States — OpenClaw
Savannah Police Department: Officers arrested for misusing AI license-plate readers to track personal acquaintances 2026-08-21 Government & Public Sector High Savannah Police Department / Flock Safety United States — —
Instinct: Beta AI personal assistant sends email without approval, retains data after disconnect 2026-08-21 Technology Low Instinct (Spear Street Technology) United States — —
npm: Trojanized packages drop ‘RedC2 4.0’ AI-powered Linux backdoor 2026-08-21 Technology Medium npm — — —
Unnamed Amsterdam law firm: Attorney fined extra costs over AI-hallucinated case citation 2026-08-21 Consulting & Professional Services Low Unnamed Amsterdam law firm Netherlands — —
ClarityCheck: Unsecured database exposes 9 million facial images 2026-08-20 Technology High ClarityCheck United States — —
xAI: ‘Cryptographic Context Injection’ flaw in Grok could exfiltrate user data via malicious web pages 2026-08-20 Technology Low xAI United States — Grok
Siemens: US agencies warn of active AI-generated exploit campaign against S7 PLCs in critical infrastructure 2026-08-19 Energy & Utilities Medium Siemens (S7 Series PLC operators) United States — —
Alation: AI Data Platform Confirms Cyberattack Affecting Customer Systems 2026-08-19 Technology Medium Alation United States — —
Tesla: Driverless Robotaxi rams through bollards in Austin 2026-08-18 Transportation & Logistics Low Tesla United States — —
Sainsbury’s: Facewatch facial-recognition AI wrongly flags paying customer as shoplifter 2026-08-18 Retail & E-commerce Medium Sainsbury's United Kingdom — —
Microsoft Copilot: ‘CoSnitch’ Flaw Enabled One-Click Data Theft via Memory Poisoning 2026-08-18 Technology Low Microsoft United States — Microsoft
State Farm: Defense lawyers admit AI-fabricated case citations in Los Angeles fire lawsuit 2026-08-18 Finance & Banking Medium State Farm United States — —
N/A (individual perpetrator): Illinois man faces 44 felony counts for AI-generated child sexual abuse material 2026-08-17 Other High N/A (individual perpetrator) United States — —
Uber: Dutch regulator fines company nearly €825 million over automated driver account deactivations 2026-08-17 Transportation & Logistics Critical Uber United States — —
ASIC: AI deepfake celebrity investment scams surge across Australia 2026-08-17 Finance & Banking Critical Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) — nationwide scam campaign Australia — —
MLflow: Actively exploited SSRF flaw lets attackers steal cloud credentials at scale 2026-08-17 Technology High MLflow — — —