Sectors — AI Threat Incidents by Industry

Technology

86 incidents

Security & Cyber (22) Agentic Systems (16) Human-AI Control (16)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-26-0097	Oracle Cuts 20,000–30,000 Jobs to Fund $50B AI Infrastructure Push (2026)	critical	2026-03-31
INC-26-0015	TeamPCP Compromises LiteLLM via Poisoned Trivy Security Scanner	critical	2026-03-24
INC-26-0043	Meta Internal AI Agent Causes Sev-1 Data Exposure and VP Agent Mass-Deletes Emails Ignoring Stop Commands	critical	2026-03-18
INC-26-0042	North Korean IT Worker Deepfake Fraud Network Generates $500M Annually for WMD Programs — OFAC Sanctions Imposed	critical	2026-03
INC-26-0051	Judge Orders OpenAI to Disclose 20 Million Chat Logs as Copyright Litigation Escalates	critical	2026-03
INC-26-0027	Block (Square) Cuts Approximately 4,000 Jobs as AI Replaces Customer Service Workforce	critical	2026-02-26
INC-26-0092	Anthropic Removes Categorical Safety Pause Trigger from Responsible Scaling Policy	critical	2026-02-24
INC-26-0032	OpenAI Dissolves Second Safety Team, Removes 'Safely' from Mission in IRS Filing, Restructures as Public Benefit Corporation	critical	2026-02-11
INC-26-0026	Tumbler Ridge Mass Shooting — ChatGPT Used in Attack Planning	critical	2026-02-10
INC-26-0014	CodeWall AI Agent Breaches McKinsey Lilli Platform via SQL Injection	critical	2026-02

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Corporate

39 incidents

Security & Cyber (13) Information Integrity (6) Privacy & Surveillance (6)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-26-0043	Meta Internal AI Agent Causes Sev-1 Data Exposure and VP Agent Mass-Deletes Emails Ignoring Stop Commands	critical	2026-03-18
INC-26-0042	North Korean IT Worker Deepfake Fraud Network Generates $500M Annually for WMD Programs — OFAC Sanctions Imposed	critical	2026-03
INC-26-0014	CodeWall AI Agent Breaches McKinsey Lilli Platform via SQL Injection	critical	2026-02
INC-26-0013	OpenClaw AI Agent Platform Hit by Critical Vulnerability and Supply Chain Campaign	critical	2026-01
INC-25-0001	AI-Orchestrated Cyber Espionage Campaign Against Critical Infrastructure	critical	2025-09
INC-25-0007	GitHub Copilot Remote Code Execution via Prompt Injection (CVE-2025-53773)	critical	2025-08
INC-25-0004	EchoLeak: Zero-Click Prompt Injection in Microsoft 365 Copilot (CVE-2025-32711)	critical	2025-06
INC-24-0010	Lawsuit Filed After Teenager's Death Linked to Character.AI Chatbot Interactions	critical	2024-02
INC-24-0001	Hong Kong Deepfake CFO Video Conference Fraud	critical	2024-01
INC-26-0006	AI Recommendation Poisoning via 'Summarize with AI' Buttons (31 Companies)	high	2026-02

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Government

35 incidents

Systemic Risk (8) Privacy & Surveillance (8) Discrimination & Social Harm (5)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-26-0029	US Military AI Targeting Platform Fed Stale Data Contributes to Strike on Iranian Elementary School	critical	2026-02-28
INC-26-0028	Anthropic Blacklisted by US Government After Refusing Autonomous Weapons and Mass Surveillance Contracts	critical	2026-02
INC-26-0034	OpenAI Pentagon Contract Triggers #QuitGPT Movement with 295% Uninstall Surge and 2.5 Million Participants	critical	2026-02
INC-26-0036	MizarVision Chinese AI Startup Publishes Real-Time US Military Intelligence via Satellite Imagery	critical	2026-02
INC-26-0035	Grok AI Integrated into Pentagon Military Networks During CSAM Scandal	critical	2026-01-12
INC-26-0052	ICE Deploys Warrantless AI Surveillance Combining Palantir, Clearview, Iris Scanning, and Phone Hacking	critical	2026-01
INC-25-0033	Jailbroken Claude AI Used to Breach Mexican Government Agencies	critical	2025-12
INC-25-0001	AI-Orchestrated Cyber Espionage Campaign Against Critical Infrastructure	critical	2025-09
INC-25-0032	DOGE Uses ChatGPT to Flag and Cancel Federal Humanities Grants	critical	2025-04
INC-24-0013	Romania Presidential Election Annulled After AI-Enabled Manipulation	critical	2024-11

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Cross-Sector

17 incidents

Security & Cyber (7) Agentic Systems (4) Information Integrity (2)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-25-0007	GitHub Copilot Remote Code Execution via Prompt Injection (CVE-2025-53773)	critical	2025-08
INC-25-0004	EchoLeak: Zero-Click Prompt Injection in Microsoft 365 Copilot (CVE-2025-32711)	critical	2025-06
INC-26-0001	Disrupting malicious uses of AI: June 2025 \| OpenAI	high	2026-02-18
INC-26-0025	Microsoft GRP-Obliteration: Single Prompt Reverses Safety Alignment Across 15 LLMs	high	2026-02-09
INC-26-0078	International AI Safety Report 2026 — 100+ Experts Warn of Escalating Risks, Safeguards 'Will Likely Fail'	high	2026-02-03
INC-26-0006	AI Recommendation Poisoning via 'Summarize with AI' Buttons (31 Companies)	high	2026-02
INC-26-0005	AI impacting labor market like a tsunami as layoff fears mount	high	2026-01
INC-26-0023	Google Vertex AI Default Configurations Enable Privilege Escalation to Service Agent Roles	high	2026-01
INC-25-0036	State-Backed Hackers from Four Nations Weaponize Google Gemini for Cyberattack Operations	high	2025-12
INC-25-0008	Cursor IDE MCP Vulnerabilities Enable Remote Code Execution (CurXecute & MCPoison)	high	2025-08

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Finance

15 incidents

Security & Cyber (4) Information Integrity (4) Economic & Labor (2)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-26-0027	Block (Square) Cuts Approximately 4,000 Jobs as AI Replaces Customer Service Workforce	critical	2026-02-26
INC-25-0033	Jailbroken Claude AI Used to Breach Mexican Government Agencies	critical	2025-12
INC-25-0001	AI-Orchestrated Cyber Espionage Campaign Against Critical Infrastructure	critical	2025-09
INC-24-0001	Hong Kong Deepfake CFO Video Conference Fraud	critical	2024-01
INC-24-0004	FBI Elder Fraud Report Documents AI-Enhanced Financial Scams Against Seniors	critical	2024-01
INC-23-0017	UnitedHealth nH Predict AI Claim Denial System	critical	2023-01
INC-10-0001	2010 Flash Crash — Algorithmic Trading Cascading Failure	critical	2010-05
INC-26-0004	Individual jailed for online gambling fraud using stolen identities	high	2026-02-20
INC-26-0006	AI Recommendation Poisoning via 'Summarize with AI' Buttons (31 Companies)	high	2026-02
INC-25-0021	Earnest Operations AI Lending Discrimination Settlement	high	2025-07

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Education

12 incidents

Human-AI Control (4) Information Integrity (3) Discrimination & Social Harm (2)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-26-0029	US Military AI Targeting Platform Fed Stale Data Contributes to Strike on Iranian Elementary School	critical	2026-02-28
INC-26-0046	LSU AI Cheating Detection Crisis — 1,488 Cases Filed with Disproportionate Impact on Non-Native English Speakers	critical	2026-01
INC-25-0013	Waymo Autonomous Vehicles Violate School Bus Stop Laws in Austin	critical	2025-08
INC-25-0032	DOGE Uses ChatGPT to Flag and Cancel Federal Humanities Grants	critical	2025-04
INC-20-0002	UK A-Level Algorithm Downgrades Disadvantaged Students	critical	2020-08
INC-26-0062	Google Gemini Tells Student 'Please Die' During Homework Help Session	high	2026-01
INC-26-0077	Brazil — 1 Million Schoolchildren Scanned Daily by Facial Recognition Across 1,700+ Schools	high	2026
INC-25-0043	AI Grading Errors — Connecticut Students Petition After Misscoring, MCAS Glitch Affects 1,400 Students	high	2025-09
INC-24-0003	AI-Generated Deepfake Audio Used to Frame High School Principal in Baltimore	high	2024-01
INC-23-0008	AI-Generated Deepfake Nude Images of Students at Westfield High School	high	2023-10

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Healthcare

12 incidents

Economic & Labor (2) Discrimination & Social Harm (2) Systemic Risk (2)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-26-0047	Federal Judge Orders UnitedHealth to Disclose nH Predict AI Denial Algorithm with Alleged 90% Error Rate	critical	2026-03-09
INC-26-0050	AI Healthcare Bias Study — 1.7 Million Responses Show Race-Based Treatment Differences Across 9 AI Programs	critical	2026-01
INC-25-0027	Medical LLM Data Poisoning Produces Undetectable Harmful Content	critical	2025-01
INC-23-0017	UnitedHealth nH Predict AI Claim Denial System	critical	2023-01
INC-22-0001	Drug Discovery AI Repurposed to Generate Toxic Chemical Weapons Compounds	critical	2022-03
INC-26-0006	AI Recommendation Poisoning via 'Summarize with AI' Buttons (31 Companies)	high	2026-02
INC-26-0076	ECRI Names AI Chatbot Misuse as #1 Health Technology Hazard for 2026	high	2026-01
INC-25-0019	AI-Designed Toxin Gene Sequences Bypass DNA Synthesis Screening	high	2025-10
INC-25-0025	AI Chatbot Suicide Risk: 20% Failure Rate in Stanford Study	high	2025-06
INC-20-0004	Pulse Oximeter Racial Bias Propagates into AI Clinical Decision Systems	high	2020-12

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Law Enforcement

12 incidents

Privacy & Surveillance (5) Discrimination & Social Harm (5) Information Integrity (1)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-26-0052	ICE Deploys Warrantless AI Surveillance Combining Palantir, Clearview, Iris Scanning, and Phone Hacking	critical	2026-01
INC-25-0041	Tennessee Grandmother Wrongfully Arrested by Facial Recognition — Jailed 108 Days, Lost Home	critical	2025-07
INC-25-0040	IWF Reports AI-Generated CSAM Videos Increase 26,385% with 65% at Highest Severity	critical	2025
INC-20-0001	Clearview AI Mass Facial Recognition Scraping	critical	2020-01
INC-20-0005	Robert Williams Wrongful Arrest from Facial Recognition Racial Bias	critical	2020-01
INC-16-0003	COMPAS Recidivism Algorithm Racial Bias	critical	2016-05
INC-26-0072	Operation Alice — 373K Dark Web CSAM Sites Taken Down Across 23 Countries	high	2026-03-09
INC-26-0063	Reno Casino Facial Recognition Wrongful Arrest — '100% Match' Was 4 Inches Shorter with Different Eye Color	high	2026-01
INC-26-0068	Palantir ImmigrationOS — ICE Pays $30M for AI System Creating Neighborhood Deportation Maps	high	2026
INC-25-0042	UN Report — AI Weaponized by Southeast Asian Organized Crime for $18-37B in Fraud	high	2025

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Media

11 incidents

Information Integrity (9) Economic & Labor (2)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-26-0051	Judge Orders OpenAI to Disclose 20 Million Chat Logs as Copyright Litigation Escalates	critical	2026-03
INC-26-0040	Universal Music, Concord, and ABKCO Sue Anthropic for $3 Billion Over Alleged Training Data Piracy	critical	2026-01-28
INC-24-0013	Romania Presidential Election Annulled After AI-Enabled Manipulation	critical	2024-11
INC-26-0059	OpenAI Shuts Down Sora Video Generator — Celebrity Deepfakes and $15M/Day Losses	high	2026-03-24
INC-26-0065	Danny Bones — First AI Slopaganda Influencer Funded by Political Party (UK)	high	2026-03-12
INC-26-0058	Trump Shares Racist AI-Generated Deepfake of Obamas — Remains Online 12 Hours	high	2026-02-05
INC-26-0010	New Zealand AI News Pages Flood Facebook with Rewritten Stories and Synthetic Images	high	2026-01
INC-26-0090	AI Deepfakes Surge in 2026 US Midterm Campaigns — Only 28 States Have Disclosure Laws	high	2026-01
INC-24-0018	India 2024 General Election Industrial-Scale Deepfake Campaign	high	2024-04
INC-26-0069	Grok Inserts 'White Genocide' Conspiracy Theory and Holocaust Denial into Unrelated Queries	medium	2026-01

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Public Safety

9 incidents

Human-AI Control (4) Security & Cyber (2) Information Integrity (2)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-26-0003	Tesla Autopilot involved in 13 fatal crashes, US regulator finds	critical	2026-02-20
INC-26-0026	Tumbler Ridge Mass Shooting — ChatGPT Used in Attack Planning	critical	2026-02-10
INC-25-0033	Jailbroken Claude AI Used to Breach Mexican Government Agencies	critical	2025-12
INC-25-0018	Las Vegas Cybertruck Bomber Used ChatGPT for Explosives Information	critical	2025-01
INC-24-0017	Israel Military Deploys AI Facial Recognition in Gaza Leading to Wrongful Detentions	critical	2024-03
INC-21-0001	Chatbot Encouraged Man in Plot to Kill Queen Elizabeth II	critical	2021-12-25
INC-18-0001	Uber Autonomous Vehicle Pedestrian Fatality	critical	2018-03
INC-17-0001	Facebook AI Mistranslation of Arabic Post Leads to Wrongful Arrest in Israel	high	2017-10
INC-25-0026	CrimeRadar AI App Sends False Crime Alerts Across U.S. Communities	medium	2025-12

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Transportation

9 incidents

Human-AI Control (6) Agentic Systems (3)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-26-0003	Tesla Autopilot involved in 13 fatal crashes, US regulator finds	critical	2026-02-20
INC-26-0044	Waymo Robotaxi Strikes Child Near Elementary School in Santa Monica — NHTSA Investigation Opened	critical	2026-01-23
INC-25-0013	Waymo Autonomous Vehicles Violate School Bus Stop Laws in Austin	critical	2025-08
INC-24-0021	Cruise Robotaxi Criminal False Reporting After Pedestrian Dragging	critical	2024-09
INC-18-0003	Boeing 737 MAX MCAS Automation Failures — Two Fatal Crashes	critical	2018-10
INC-18-0001	Uber Autonomous Vehicle Pedestrian Fatality	critical	2018-03
INC-25-0012	Zoox Robotaxi Collision and Software Recall in Las Vegas	medium	2025-04
INC-24-0027	Waymo Robotaxi Collides with Serve Delivery Robot in Los Angeles	medium	2024-12-27
INC-22-0005	Air Canada Chatbot Hallucinated Refund Policy — Tribunal Ruling	medium	2022-11

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Employment

8 incidents

Discrimination & Social Harm (4) Information Integrity (1) Economic & Labor (1)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-26-0091	Workday AI Hiring Bias Class Action — African-American Applicant Rejected Dozens of Times Across Employers	high	2026-03-07
INC-26-0066	ACLU Files Complaint — HireVue AI Discriminated Against Deaf Indigenous Worker in Promotion Decision	high	2026-03
INC-26-0086	North Korea 'AI Fake Applicant' Campaign — Deepfake Video Interviews to Infiltrate Western Companies	high	2026-03
INC-26-0005	AI impacting labor market like a tsunami as layoff fears mount	high	2026-01
INC-26-0056	Eightfold AI Sued for Creating Secret Dossiers on 1 Billion+ Workers with Hidden Scoring	high	2026-01
INC-24-0014	Workday AI Hiring Tool Discrimination Class Action	high	2024-07
INC-24-0022	McDonald's McHire AI Hiring Platform Data Vulnerability	high	2024-06
INC-18-0002	Amazon AI Recruiting Tool Gender Bias	high	2018-10

Elections

6 incidents

Information Integrity (6)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-26-0065	Danny Bones — First AI Slopaganda Influencer Funded by Political Party (UK)	high	2026-03-12
INC-26-0058	Trump Shares Racist AI-Generated Deepfake of Obamas — Remains Online 12 Hours	high	2026-02-05
INC-26-0090	AI Deepfakes Surge in 2026 US Midterm Campaigns — Only 28 States Have Disclosure Laws	high	2026-01
INC-24-0018	India 2024 General Election Industrial-Scale Deepfake Campaign	high	2024-04
INC-24-0002	AI-Generated Biden Robocall in New Hampshire Primary	high	2024-01
INC-23-0007	AI-Generated Deepfake Audio Used to Influence Slovak Parliamentary Election	high	2023-09

Legal

5 incidents

Economic & Labor (3) Human-AI Control (1) Information Integrity (1)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-26-0047	Federal Judge Orders UnitedHealth to Disclose nH Predict AI Denial Algorithm with Alleged 90% Error Rate	critical	2026-03-09
INC-26-0051	Judge Orders OpenAI to Disclose 20 Million Chat Logs as Copyright Litigation Escalates	critical	2026-03
INC-26-0040	Universal Music, Concord, and ABKCO Sue Anthropic for $3 Billion Over Alleged Training Data Piracy	critical	2026-01-28
INC-26-0045	Character.AI Settles Five Teen Suicide Lawsuits as Kentucky Becomes First State to Sue	critical	2026-01-07
INC-23-0005	AI-Fabricated Legal Citations in U.S. Courts	high	2023-05

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Regulation

5 incidents

Human-AI Control (3) Systemic Risk (1) Privacy & Surveillance (1)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-26-0092	Anthropic Removes Categorical Safety Pause Trigger from Responsible Scaling Policy	critical	2026-02-24
INC-26-0094	White House AI Framework Calls on Congress to Preempt State AI Laws, Leverages Federal Funding	high	2026-03-20
INC-25-0048	Australia Scraps AI Advisory Body After 15 Months and $188K, Drops Mandatory AI Guardrails	medium	2025-12-02
INC-24-0011	EU AI Act Enters Into Force as World's First Comprehensive AI Regulation	medium	2024-08
INC-23-0003	Italy Temporary Ban on ChatGPT for GDPR Violations	medium	2023-03

Social Services

5 incidents

Discrimination & Social Harm (4) Economic & Labor (1)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-16-0001	Australia Robodebt Automated Welfare Fraud Detection	critical	2016-07
INC-13-0001	Dutch Childcare Benefits Algorithm Discrimination	critical	2013-01
INC-24-0016	SafeRent Algorithmic Housing Discrimination Settlement	high	2024-04
INC-22-0004	RealPage AI Algorithmic Rent-Fixing	high	2022-10
INC-22-0002	Meta Housing Ad Discrimination DOJ Settlement	high	2022-06

Manufacturing

3 incidents

Security & Cyber (2) Systemic Risk (1)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-25-0001	AI-Orchestrated Cyber Espionage Campaign Against Critical Infrastructure	critical	2025-09
INC-23-0002	Samsung Semiconductor Trade Secret Leak via ChatGPT	high	2023-03
INC-25-0022	AWS Outage Causes AI-Connected Mattress Malfunctions	medium	2025-10

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Energy

2 incidents

Systemic Risk (1) Information Integrity (1)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-26-0041	xAI Colossus Data Center Operates 27 Unpermitted Gas Turbines in Memphis While Consuming 1.3 Million Gallons of Water Daily	critical	2026-02
INC-19-0001	AI Voice Clone CEO Fraud Against UK Energy Company	high	2019-03

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