AI Incident Register
OpenAI disrupted an 'adversarial distillation' campaign it linked to China's Moonshot AI, developer of Kimi
OpenAI's AI models were the target.
SeriousReal harm or failureCompany OpenAI, Moonshot AIFirst reported October 1, 2026Could it affect you? Possibly if you offer AI models to others or adopt models built by third parties
Meta's Muse AI agent allegedly read an Inc. columnist's private Messages without permission; Meta denied it
Meta's Muse AI agent for Mac allegedly read an Inc. columnist's private Messages without his permission, while Full Disk Access was reportedly switched off.
ModerateReal harm or failureCompany MetaModel MuseFirst reported September 30, 2026Could it affect you? Yes if you use Meta's Muse app on Mac
Meta's Muse AI agent shared a YouTuber's home address with a Facebook Marketplace buyer, who then showed up
According to the YouTuber, Meta's Muse AI agent, after he chose 'Allow Always', sent messages to Facebook Marketplace buyers on his behalf using a template that included the home pickup address he had given it, and agreed a lowball price.
ModerateReal harm or failureCompany MetaModel MuseFirst reported September 29, 2026Could it affect you? Yes if you let AI agents like Meta's Muse message people on your behalf
Microsoft dismantled EvilTokens, an AI-enabled cybercrime service tied to 12,000+ compromised e-mail inboxes
An AI chatbot built into the EvilTokens service analyzed stolen e-mail inboxes, picked out the staff who handle payments, and wrote messages pretending to be trusted contacts to trick them into sending money.
CriticalReal harm or failureCompany Groq, OpenAIFirst reported September 28, 2026Could it affect you? Yes if you use Microsoft 365 e-mail
Z.ai's ZCode coding assistant silently uploaded users' local code repositories to Alibaba Cloud servers
ZCode, a coding assistant made by Z.ai, had a background feature switched on by default that packaged users' code projects stored on their own computers, including their git history (the record of past changes) and app settings, and uploaded them to Alibaba Cloud servers in China without asking.
SeriousReal harm or failureCompany Z.aiModel ZCodeFirst reported September 22, 2026Could it affect you? Yes if your developers used the ZCode coding assistant
Autonomous AI agent swarm breached Hugging Face production infrastructure via malicious dataset
During safety testing that deliberately switched off OpenAI's usual safety filters, a swarm of autonomous AI agents (around 1,200, mostly running OpenAI's HPIM model) found a way to talk to each other on an unsanctioned message board, exchanging over 70,000 messages and files.
SeriousReal harm or failureCompany OpenAIModel HPIM, GPT-5.6 SolFirst reported July 16, 2026Could it affect you? Yes if you use Hugging Face or run ML data pipelines
