When AI systems cause real-world harm.

Cloud security firm Sysdig has released details on what it claims to be the world's first ransomware campaign completely driven by a large language model (LLM). Dubbed JadePuffer, the campaign targeted an internet-facing Langflow instance ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1578#7541)

On July 1, 2026, researchers at Sysdig's Threat Research Team published evidence of what they assess to be the first ransomware operation conducted end-to-end by a large language model. The operator, which Sysdig named JADEPUFFER, breached ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1578#7542)

A January 2026 class action alleges that Eightfold AI scraped personal data on over one billion workers, scored job applicants on a zero-to-five scale, and discarded low-ranked candidates before a human being ever saw their applications. An ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1575#7543)

Eightfold is the company being sued. The AI platform filters applicants for Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft, Netflix and PayPal. Plaintiff, Erin Kistler, applied to these companies through Eightfold's online platform. "She's a highly ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1575#7544)

Romance scammers have become extremely bold, using deepfake technology to impersonate royalty and ensnare new victims. Key takeaways Scammer used AI-generated video calls to impersonate Dubai's Crown Prince and build trust with victims. ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1570#7545)

Are you interested in learning from human experts about how AI could impact the future of work and the customer experience? If so, it turns out that you could have unknowingly been getting some of your responses from AI. KPMG, one of the l ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1563#7546)

PMG has removed a global report on AI after multiple case studies were found to be inaccurate and apparently generated from AI hallucinations. The Financial Times (FT) reported that the October report, Redefining excellence in the age of a ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1563#7547)

A Bucks County man was taken into custody on Tuesday after using artificial intelligence to create child pornography, District Attorney Joe Khan said. On Tuesday, Bucks County District Attorney Joe Khan announced that Harry Tiffany IV, 66, ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1562#7548)

A X user sent a morse code message tricking Grok into authorizing a $150,000 crypto transfer. This is a prompt injection attack against an autonomous AI agent. In this article we explain how an input obfuscation allowed the heist to occur, ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1556#7549)

The taoiseach (Irish PM) has put out a warning about deep-fakes after a fake video of him was used to promote a financial scam. Micheál Martin said the video which was circulating online was "clearly very false material" and served as a re ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1549#7550)

An elite Wall Street law firm has apologized to a federal judge for submitting a court filing replete with errors created by artificial intelligence, including "hallucinations" that fabricated case citations. The A.I.-generated errors came ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1558#7551)

The elite Wall Street law firm Sullivan & Cromwell has told a court that a major filing it made in a high-profile case contained errors resulting from hallucinations generated by artificial intelligence. Andrew Dietderich, the co-head of t ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1558#7552)

Hachette Book Group, one of the largest publishers in the United States, pulled a forthcoming horror novel on Thursday in a decision that followed widespread allegations online that the author, Mia Ballard, relied heavily on artificial inte ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1444#7553)

The US release of a horror novel has been cancelled by its publisher over concerns that AI was used to help write it. Shy Girl by US author Mia Ballard had been scheduled for publication in the US next month, but that will no longer go ahe ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1444#7554)

Hachette Book Group has withdrawn a horror novel after allegations circulated online that its author relied heavily on artificial intelligence. The book is to be discontinued in the UK after being published in November 2025, and its US laun ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1444#7555)

A recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that lasted 13 hours was reportedly caused by one of its own AI tools, according to reporting by Financial Times. This happened in December after engineers deployed the Kiro AI coding tool to make c ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1442#7556)

When Amazon Web Services got hit by a 13-hour outage in December, it wasn't because a person tripped over a cord. According to a report from the Financial Times, several anonymous Amazon employees said that the outage was the fault of Kiro, ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1442#7557)

We want to address the inaccuracies in the Financial Times' reporting yesterday. The brief service interruption they reported on was the result of user error---specifically misconfigured access controls---not AI as the story claims. The di ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1442#7558)

Yesterday, OpenAI made an alarming disclosure: An assortment of its most advanced AI models, including one that has not yet been released, had autonomously broken out of the company's internal systems and hacked into the databases of anothe ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1604#7559)

Tobacco giant Philip Morris used AI to generate hundreds of fake "citizen" responses opposing tougher EU rules on vapes, with the Netherlands among the countries worst affected, an investigation by broadcaster NOS and the journalism platfor ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1590#7560)

Nearly three-quarters of Dutch submissions to a European Union consultation on stricter tobacco rules were fully written by artificial intelligence and submitted as apparent individual responses. Most were traced to an AI tool linked to tob ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1590#7561)

Brussels -- One in three responses to the European Commission's public consultation on stricter tobacco legislation is said to have been generated by artificial intelligence. The allegation -- which is worrying because it also casts doubt o ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1590#7562)

In December 2025, Amazon Web Services experienced a 13-hour outage that started with an AI bot making a decision. Not a human engineer. An AI coding tool called Kiro decided the best way to fix a problem was to delete and recreate a product ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1442#7563)

Amazon Web Services recently averted a potential software supply chain disaster when it discovered that malicious code had been inserted into an open-source repository accessed by a generative AI-powered assistant widely used to supercharge ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1158#7564)

“Roger, roll, pitch,” said mission control during NASA's Artemis II mission, streamed live to millions around the world. But for some Koreans watching it in real time on the KBS TV YouTube channel, the phrase took on an entirely different ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1446#7565)

Korea's major broadcast channel KBS issued a public apology on Thursday for the use of accidental AI-generated profanity in its subtitles during the channel's YouTube livestream for the Artemis II launch on Wednesday. The channel's AI tra ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1446#7566)

A recent social media scam impersonating Inland Revenue's top boss has prompted a warning from the tax agency. An image of a man said to be commissioner of Inland Revenue Peter Mersi was used as part of a social media scam inviting people ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1413#7567)

Martin Lewis has hit out at online scammers after a 'deep fake' of his wife, Lara Lewington, being "beaten up" was circulated online. The money saving guru also slammed social media firms, saying he had "no faith" in them to "clear up" such ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1411#7568)

Martin Lewis has hit out at "\*\*\*\*ing" scammers after an artifical intelligence (AI) generated video of his wife being "beaten up by an 'immigrant'" was circulated online. The founder of MoneySavingExpert.com said the couple had received ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1411#7569)

CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. - Cherokee Sheriff's investigators arrested two agency members Monday after an internal database audit revealed multiple employees used automated license plate readers for non-law enforcement purposes. Georgia law viol ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1595#7526)

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) --- The Cherokee County Sheriff's Office arrested one of its own on Friday after she allegedly misused the agency's license plate reader database. Cynthia Jodesty faces two charges: one felony count of vio ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1595#7527)

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Three Cherokee County Sheriff's Office deputies have been fired and arrested, accused of unlawfully accessing the county's license plate reader database, according to arrest affidavits. The deputies are ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1595#7528)

Synopsis Sky Gold shares fell after its subsidiary lost Rs 10.70 crore due to fraud. Unknown persons used deepfake techniques to impersonate a director and transfer funds. The subsidiary reported the incident to cybercrime authorities and ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1596#7529)

Tragedy struck in Spokane in late June when a man allegedly killed a small dog in a domestic violence dispute. Local police, issued a news release on July 1 highlighting the man's arrest. Except the dog wasn't dead, only seriously injured ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1597#7530)

As the Waymo pulled up to a stoplight in San Francisco's Marina District, Sherman Watson raked his eyes over the empty road and saw a silhouette approaching in the darkness. He was riding shotgun, peering out at the vast grid of Pierce and ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1599#7531)

The Arizona Court of Appeals put lawyers and self-represented litigants alike on notice: If you let artificial intelligence write your legal brief and don't check whether the cases it cites are real, you can be sanctioned for it --- even if ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1600#7532)

The first-place prize at a photography competition in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, has been revoked after the image was proven to be created by AI. The competition is open to locals as a way to promote photography. Once the re ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1601#7533)

WASHINGTON, July 17 (Reuters) - Amazon.com self-driving car unit Zoox said Friday it will recall its fleet of 105 autonomous vehicles because they may not detect heavy smoke and could impede emergency personnel. Last week, the ‌top U.S. au ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1602#7534)

Zoox has issued a recall of the software driving its fleet of 105 robotaxis after one of its autonomous vehicles drove into a smoke-obscured emergency fire scene in Las Vegas, the latest incident to draw federal scrutiny over how driverless ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1602#7535)

The High Court has accepted two apologies from the Crown Prosecution Service after it was caught using artificial intelligence to compose court documents for extradition cases. The CPS initially admitted in a letter to the court that its e ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1603#7536)