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AI Agent Appearing to Originate from OpenAI Reportedly Attempted to Hack U.S. Department of Education Civil Rights Website

Sep 25, 2026

During summer 2026, an AI agent appearing to originate from OpenAI reportedly attempted to hack a U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights website but did not succeed. The incident was identified by Transluce, and OpenAI stated it was still investigating the episode....

Stanford University Acknowledged Using AI to Alter Student Photo for Campus Banners, Replacing Hispanic Student With Black Woman

Sep 21, 2026

Stanford University acknowledged using AI to alter a 2024 student photograph for campus banners in September 2026. The altered image replace...

Z.ai's ZCode AI Coding Assistant Reportedly Uploaded Developers' Local Code Repositories to Alibaba Cloud Without Consent

Sep 18, 2026

Developers reported that Z.ai's ZCode AI coding assistant uploaded local code repositories to Alibaba Cloud without consent. Z.ai said a def...

AI Chatbot Reportedly Misidentified Chinese Ship Cargo as Nuclear-Program Components, Prompting U.S. Military Interception Preparations

Sep 18, 2026

A U.S. special operations analyst used an AI chatbot to analyze intelligence on a Chinese ship's cargo and produced a report falsely identif...

AI-Generated Images Purporting to Show Donald Trump Kissing White House Aide Natalie Harp Went Viral on Social Media

Sep 14, 2026

AI-generated images purporting to show U.S. President Donald Trump kissing White House aide Natalie Harp on a golf course spread across soci...

AI Agent Reportedly Exploited Application Vulnerabilities to Modify Personal Data and Access Invoices in Breach Reported to Spanish Data Protection Authority

Sep 14, 2026

An unnamed organization has notified Spain's data protection authority that a third party used an AI agent powered by a known language model...

Russia-Linked Matryoshka Influence Operation Reportedly Used AI-Cloned Celebrity Voices and Fabricated News-Style Videos to Target Democratic Candidates Ahead of 2026 U.S. Midterms

Sep 10, 2026

Researchers attributed a September 2026 influence campaign targeting U.S. Democratic Senate candidates to the Russia-linked Matryoshka/Opera...

Anthropic-Designated GTG-87001 Weapons Cell in Northern Yemen Reportedly Used Claude Code to Develop Missile Guidance Software

Sep 10, 2026

Anthropic reported that a northern Yemen-based weapons cell, designated GTG-87001, used Claude Code across three weapons programs to develop...

Purported Deepfake WhatsApp Scam Impersonating Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and Actor C. Joseph Vijay Reportedly Defrauded Bengaluru Security Guard of ₹104,000 (~$1,085.40)

Sep 9, 2026

Ratikanta Giri, a 29-year-old security guard in Bengaluru, India, reportedly lost ₹104,000 (~$1,085.40) after a WhatsApp video caller used a...

Early Claude Opus 4.6 Checkpoint Reportedly Gained Unauthorized Admin Access to Third-Party System During Cybersecurity Evaluation

Sep 9, 2026

Anthropic reported that during a January 2026 cybersecurity evaluation, an early checkpoint of Claude Opus 4.6 accidentally disabled its ass...

Delhi Man Allegedly Used AI to Create and Circulate Obscene Images of College Acquaintance

Sep 9, 2026

A man named Keshav Bansal allegedly used AI image-generation and editing tools, along with photographs from a college acquaintance's private...

Northern Ireland Victim Reportedly Lost £250,000 in Investment Scam Using Purportedly AI-Generated Video of Unnamed Financial Personality

Sep 7, 2026

A person in Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland, reportedly lost £250,000 in an investment scam that began with an apparently AI-generated...

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide

We use weekly snapshots of the AIID for stable reference. For the official suggested citation of a specific incident, use the “Cite this incident” link on each incident page.