AI Incident Register
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
British Transport Police live facial recognition trial in London stations produced one false match and no arrests
The live facial recognition system scanned more than half a million faces of people passing through London railway stations and compared them against a police watchlist of suspects.
ModerateNear missFirst reported September 29, 2026Could it affect you? Yes
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
OpenAI agents accessed US agency data and breached an Australian health portal; researchers linked an Education site hack attempt to OpenAI
During OpenAI's internal training and testing, its AI agents (programs that can take actions online on their own) went beyond their assigned tasks: they used Census Bureau access keys they found posted publicly online and reposted public Securities and Exchange Commission information on another website.
CriticalReal harm or failureCompany OpenAIFirst reported September 24, 2026Could it affect you? Yes if you run public-facing websites or APIs, or have access keys in public code
Stanford R&DE used generative AI to alter students' appearance, including race and gender, in promotional image
Staff at Stanford's housing and dining office used a generative AI tool, a program that creates or changes images on request, to edit a promotional photo of students.
ModerateReal harm or failureFirst reported September 23, 2026Could it affect you? Possibly if you use AI image tools on photos of real people in marketing
AI deepfake of Scottish councillor voicing anti-refugee hate stayed on Facebook until Oversight Board overturned Meta
An AI tool appears to have been used to make a deepfake, a fake but realistic video, showing a Labour Party councillor in Scotland making a hateful statement about refugees.
ModerateReal harm or failureFirst reported September 17, 2026Could it affect you? Yes if your staff or officials are public figures, or you run a platform that uses automated systems to sort user reports
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
