AI Incidents

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

Showing 126–150 of 470 incidents
Incident Incident Date ↓ Industry ↕ Severity ↕ Company ↕ Country ↕ Model Vendor
xAI: Prompt injection via X bios triggers false CSAM and assassination-threat posts about Elon Musk 2026-08-15 Technology Medium xAI United States — Grok
Andon Labs: AI store manager Luna fires human employee for repeated tardiness 2026-08-15 Retail & E-commerce Low Andon Labs United States — —
Indico Data Solutions: Data breach exposes thousands of customers’ Social Security numbers 2026-08-14 Technology High Indico Data Solutions United States — —
Unnamed Australian urology clinic: AI scribe fabricates patient’s psychedelic mushroom use in medical letter 2026-08-14 Healthcare Medium Unnamed Australian urology clinic Australia — —
Otter.ai: Federal judge allows wiretapping and biometric privacy claims over AI notetaker to proceed 2026-08-13 Technology Medium Otter.ai United States — —
Marathon Engineering: AI meeting notetaker’s transcript becomes key evidence in gender-discrimination suit 2026-08-12 Consulting & Professional Services Medium Marathon Engineering United States — Fireflies AI
American Airlines: AURA AI system rebooks passengers off reachable flights without consent 2026-08-12 Transportation & Logistics Medium American Airlines United States — —
Government of Taiwan: Autonomous AI agents breach 21 government systems in first-of-its-kind cyberattack 2026-08-12 Government & Public Sector Critical Government of Taiwan Taiwan — —
Microsoft: Critical Copilot Cowork flaw could let attackers escalate privileges across Microsoft 365 2026-08-11 Technology Low Microsoft United States — Microsoft
Unnamed Spanish digital certificate provider: Deepfake glitch exposes fraudster who bypassed video identity verification 2026-08-11 Finance & Banking Medium Unnamed Spanish digital certificate provider Spain — —
Microsoft: Critical Azure SRE Agent flaw could let attackers hijack AI agent’s cloud permissions 2026-08-11 Technology Low Microsoft United States — Microsoft
NY-21 congressional campaign: AI deepfake video of opponent sparks election-law debate 2026-08-11 Media & Entertainment Low Anthony Constantino for Congress United States — —
Zoom: AI-assisted research uncovers zero-click ‘Zoomsday’ code-execution flaw 2026-08-11 Technology Low Zoom United States — —
Bibb County Sheriff’s Office: Deputies arrested for using Flock AI license-plate cameras to stalk personal contacts 2026-08-10 Government & Public Sector Medium Bibb County Sheriff's Office United States — —
Multiple developers: ‘Deadbugz’ campaign poisons MCP server metadata to steal SSH keys and cloud credentials 2026-08-10 Technology Medium Multiple GitHub developer-tool projects (Deadbugz campaign) — — —
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google: Cross-vendor ‘decryption jailbreak’ exposes encrypted AI reasoning traces 2026-08-10 Technology Low OpenAI, Anthropic, Google United States Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.6 Luna, Gemini Robotics ER-1.6 Claude, OpenAI, Gemini
llama.cpp: Ten vulnerabilities disclosed in local AI inference engine, five unpatched 2026-08-10 Technology Medium llama.cpp — — —
Anthropic, Cloudflare, Datadog, Sentry: ‘GhostJacking’ attack hijacks AI coding agents via poisoned logs 2026-08-10 Technology Low Anthropic, Cloudflare, Datadog, Sentry United States — Claude
Independent user: OpenClaw AI agent hacks gym booking system, cancels stranger’s reservation 2026-08-10 Other Low Independent user Australia — Claude
Google: Antigravity coding agent recursively deletes 300GB of user files during cache cleanup 2026-08-09 Technology Medium Google — — Google
Waymo: Dallas pedestrian dies after being thrown into path of self-driving vehicle 2026-08-08 Transportation & Logistics Critical Waymo United States — —
Meta: New Mexico judge orders AI chatbot restrictions for minors after $567 million penalty 2026-08-07 Technology Critical Meta United States — —
OpenAI, Anthropic: Zero-click prompt injection could hijack ChatGPT Atlas and Claude in Chrome 2026-08-06 Technology Low OpenAI, Anthropic United States ChatGPT Atlas, Claude in Chrome OpenAI, Claude
Multiple organizations: China-nexus actor wires DeepSeek into autonomous hacking framework, breaches 460+ targets across 47 countries 2026-08-05 — Critical Multiple organizations (460+ targets across 47 countries) — — DeepSeek
Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Perplexity: ‘PleaseFix’ zero-click flaw lets a malicious email hijack five AI browsers 2026-08-05 Technology Low Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Perplexity United States — Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, Copilot, Perplexity