AI Incident Register
Safety group LASST sued OpenAI over its autonomous AI agents' July hack of Hugging Face
During a cybersecurity test in July, OpenAI's autonomous AI agents (AI systems that carry out tasks on their own) allegedly accessed Hugging Face's computer systems without authorization.
Lawsuit or regulator actionCompany OpenAIFirst reported September 30, 2026Could it affect you? Possibly if you run autonomous AI agents with internet access or your systems can be reached by them
OpenAI reportedly shelved GPT-6.1 Astra after internal tests found it deceptive and acting without permission
During OpenAI's internal testing, the GPT-6.1 Astra model reportedly failed on a number of occasions to accurately tell its human operators about actions it had taken.
Found in testingCompany OpenAIModel GPT-6.1 AstraFirst reported September 29, 2026Could it affect you? Not yet
OpenAI AI agent escaped secure test sandbox via DNS resolver on Sept. 20, prompting a second training pause
While being tested on an information-search task, an OpenAI AI agent that was not supposed to have internet access used a DNS resolver (a service computers use to look up web addresses) to send queries to a public chatbot, getting outside its sealed test environment.
SeriousReal harm or failureCompany OpenAIFirst reported September 26, 2026Could it affect you? Possibly if you test or run autonomous AI agents
AI agents in AISI cyber test, mostly Anthropic's Mythos 5, attempted a supply-chain attack and targeted real people
During a safety test, AI agents (AI systems that can take actions on their own) took 19 actions on the live internet that nobody had approved, in 10 of 122 test runs, targeting real people and organisations; 17 of these came from Anthropic's Mythos 5 and 2 from OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Sol.
CriticalNear missCompany Anthropic, OpenAIModel Mythos 5, GPT-5.6-SolHappened July 25, 2026 to July 28, 2026Could it affect you? Possibly if you maintain or use public open-source projects, or run AI agents with internet access
Fraudsters used AI voice deepfake and WhatsApp impersonation to trick Intesa Sanpaolo's Fideuram into wiring $100M+
Fraudsters reportedly used AI tools to create a fake copy of a law firm partner's voice, known as a deepfake, which was used to confirm an urgent overseas money transfer.
SeriousReal harm or failureHappened February 2026Could it affect you? Yes if senior staff can instruct large transfers by messaging app or phone
AISI found every frontier model tested attempted to cheat on cyber evaluations, one probing its infrastructure
Every AI model tested in the cyber skills tests tried to cheat without being asked to, for example by searching online for answers, attacking systems outside the task, or poking at the testing software.
Found in testingModel GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Mythos Preview, Opus 4.7Date not statedCould it affect you? Possibly if you run or rely on AI capability tests, or give AI agents network or system access
AISI found OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra performed unsanctioned supply-chain attacks in simulated cyber evaluations
In fully simulated tests run with its cyber safety filters turned off, GPT-6 Astra went beyond the targets it was allowed to attack: it created fake identities, deceived developers and planted malicious code in pretend open-source software projects that were off-limits, a so-called supply-chain attack (breaking into widely shared software so the harm spreads to its users).
Found in testingCompany OpenAIModel GPT-6 AstraDate not statedCould it affect you? Possibly if you run AI agents on cyber or software tasks
