Sectors — AI Threat Incidents by Industry

Corporate

35 incidents

Security & Cyber (11) Privacy & Surveillance (6) Information Integrity (5)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
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
INC-26-0005	AI impacting labor market like a tsunami as layoff fears mount	high	2026-01
INC-25-0011	Deloitte AI-Fabricated Citations in Government Advisory Reports	high	2025-09
INC-25-0008	Cursor IDE MCP Vulnerabilities Enable Remote Code Execution (CurXecute & MCPoison)	high	2025-08
INC-25-0006	ChatGPT Shared Conversations Indexed by Search Engines, Exposing Sensitive Data	high	2025-07

Showing top 10 of 35 incidents by severity.

Technology

26 incidents

Agentic Systems (8) Security & Cyber (4) Human-AI Control (4)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-26-0012	Chinese AI Labs Conduct Industrial-Scale Distillation Attacks Against Claude	critical	2025
INC-24-0021	Cruise Robotaxi Criminal False Reporting After Pedestrian Dragging	critical	2024-09
INC-26-0006	AI Recommendation Poisoning via 'Summarize with AI' Buttons (31 Companies)	high	2026-02
INC-25-0009	Alibaba ROME AI Agent Autonomously Mines Cryptocurrency and Opens SSH Tunnel	high	2025-12
INC-25-0015	Replit AI Agent Deletes Production Database During Code Freeze	high	2025-07
INC-25-0025	Stanford Study Finds AI Therapy Chatbots Provide Dangerous Responses to Suicidal Ideation	high	2025-06
INC-25-0024	Microsoft Reports Blocking $4 Billion in AI-Enabled Fraud Attempts	high	2025-04
INC-24-0015	Sakana AI Scientist Unexpectedly Modifies Own Code	high	2024-08
INC-24-0020	Slack AI Indirect Prompt Injection Data Exfiltration Vulnerability	high	2024-08
INC-24-0014	Workday AI Hiring Tool Discrimination Class Action	high	2024-07

Showing top 10 of 26 incidents by severity.

Government

20 incidents

Discrimination & Social Harm (5) Information Integrity (4) Privacy & Surveillance (4)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-26-0011	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-26-0009	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
INC-24-0017	Israel Military Deploys AI Facial Recognition in Gaza Leading to Wrongful Detentions	critical	2024-03
INC-22-0001	Drug Discovery AI Repurposed to Generate Toxic Chemical Weapons Compounds	critical	2022-03
INC-21-0001	Chatbot Encouraged Man in Plot to Kill Queen Elizabeth II	critical	2021-12-25
INC-20-0002	UK A-Level Algorithm Downgrades Disadvantaged Students	critical	2020-08
INC-20-0003	UN-Documented Autonomous Drone Attack in Libya	critical	2020-03
INC-20-0001	Clearview AI Mass Facial Recognition Scraping	critical	2020-01

Showing top 10 of 20 incidents by severity.

Cross-Sector

13 incidents

Security & Cyber (5) Agentic Systems (3) Privacy & Surveillance (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-26-0006	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-25-0008	Cursor IDE MCP Vulnerabilities Enable Remote Code Execution (CurXecute & MCPoison)	high	2025-08
INC-25-0006	ChatGPT Shared Conversations Indexed by Search Engines, Exposing Sensitive Data	high	2025-07
INC-24-0007	Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks on LLM-Integrated Applications	high	2024-01
INC-24-0008	AI-Generated Non-Consensual Intimate Images of Taylor Swift Circulate on Social Media	high	2024-01
INC-23-0016	Bing Chat (Sydney) System Prompt Exposure via Prompt Injection	high	2023-02
INC-26-0001	Disrupting malicious uses of AI: June 2025 \| OpenAI	medium	2026-02-18

Showing top 10 of 13 incidents by severity.

Finance

13 incidents

Security & Cyber (4) Information Integrity (3) Agentic Systems (2)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-26-0011	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
INC-25-0024	Microsoft Reports Blocking $4 Billion in AI-Enabled Fraud Attempts	high	2025-04

Showing top 10 of 13 incidents by severity.

Healthcare

8 incidents

Systemic Risk (2) Agentic Systems (2) Economic & Labor (1)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
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-25-0019	AI-Designed Toxin Gene Sequences Bypass DNA Synthesis Screening	high	2025-10
INC-25-0025	Stanford Study Finds AI Therapy Chatbots Provide Dangerous Responses to Suicidal Ideation	high	2025-06
INC-20-0004	Pulse Oximeter Racial Bias Propagates into AI Clinical Decision Systems	high	2020-12
INC-26-0008	MINJA: Memory Injection Attack Against RAG-Augmented LLM Agents	medium	2025-03
INC-25-0023	'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' Nonsense Phrase Contaminates Scientific Literature via AI	medium	2020-01

Public Safety

8 incidents

Human-AI Control (3) 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-26-0011	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

Education

7 incidents

Information Integrity (3) Discrimination & Social Harm (2) Human-AI Control (1)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-25-0013	Waymo Autonomous Vehicles Violate School Bus Stop Laws in Austin	critical	2025-08
INC-26-0009	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-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
INC-23-0010	Chegg Stock Collapse After ChatGPT Disruption	high	2023-05
INC-25-0023	'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' Nonsense Phrase Contaminates Scientific Literature via AI	medium	2020-01

Transportation

7 incidents

Human-AI Control (5) Agentic Systems (2)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-26-0003	Tesla Autopilot involved in 13 fatal crashes, US regulator finds	critical	2026-02-20
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-24-0005	Air Canada Chatbot Hallucinated Refund Policy — Tribunal Ruling	medium	2022-11

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-23-0009	RealPage AI Algorithmic Rent-Fixing	high	2022-10
INC-22-0002	Meta Housing Ad Discrimination DOJ Settlement	high	2022-06

Employment

4 incidents

Discrimination & Social Harm (2) Economic & Labor (1) Security & Cyber (1)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-26-0005	AI impacting labor market like a tsunami as layoff fears mount	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

Media

4 incidents

Information Integrity (4)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-24-0013	Romania Presidential Election Annulled After AI-Enabled Manipulation	critical	2024-11
INC-26-0010	New Zealand AI News Pages Flood Facebook with Rewritten Stories and Synthetic Images	high	2026-01
INC-24-0018	India 2024 General Election Industrial-Scale Deepfake Campaign	high	2024-04
INC-24-0023	Google AI Overviews Recommend Glue on Pizza and Eating Rocks	medium	2024-05

Elections

3 incidents

Information Integrity (3)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
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

Law Enforcement

3 incidents

Privacy & Surveillance (1) Discrimination & Social Harm (1) Human-AI Control (1)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-20-0001	Clearview AI Mass Facial Recognition Scraping	critical	2020-01
INC-16-0003	COMPAS Recidivism Algorithm Racial Bias	critical	2016-05
INC-25-0016	Heber City AI Police Report Generates Fictional Content from Background Audio	medium	2025-12

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

Regulation

2 incidents

Systemic Risk (1) Privacy & Surveillance (1)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
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

Energy

1 incident

Information Integrity (1)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-19-0001	AI Voice Clone CEO Fraud Against UK Energy Company	high	2019-03

Legal

1 incident

Information Integrity (1)

ID	Title	Severity	Date
INC-23-0005	AI-Fabricated Legal Citations in U.S. Courts	high	2023-05