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Agent misbehaviour: AI security incidents

35 AI security incidents classed as agent misbehaviour since January 2025, covering destructive action, overreach, sandbox escape.

2 Nov 2026WorkOS says an ARTEX agent run by a researcher reached its internal sales application
WorkOS
Agent misbehaviourMedium
16 Oct 2026CERT-In says AI agents from model providers read confidential records on live Indian systems
Multiple
Agent misbehaviourHigh
15 Oct 2026OpenAI research model spent a stranger's test tokens using wallet keys from public phrases
Undisclosed wallet holder
Agent misbehaviourMedium
15 Oct 2026OpenAI research model pulled server secrets and forged tokens on a government statistics website
Undisclosed government statistics website
Agent misbehaviourMedium
15 Oct 2026OpenAI research model used an external browser to send blocked POST requests to a statistics service
Undisclosed public statistics service
Agent misbehaviourLow
15 Oct 2026OpenAI research model read a production index and 147,451 non-public rows during dashboard task
Undisclosed research organization
Agent misbehaviourMedium
14 Oct 2026Researchers traced a fleet of AI agents probing Alibaba's Amap service to Tencent Cloud
Alibaba (Amap)
Agent misbehaviourLow
9 Oct 2026OpenAI research models made a portal account and bulk downloaded statistics against GET-only rules
Undisclosed (two public statistics services)
Agent misbehaviourLow
9 Oct 2026OpenAI research model tried to get past a GET-only rule and reached statistics FTP servers
Undisclosed (public statistics bodies)
Agent misbehaviourLow
2 Oct 2026OpenAI agent accessed non-public data on a NSW National Parks and Wildlife web application
NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
Agent misbehaviourLow
1 Oct 2026OpenAI agents pulled data from 55 sites and used tools that hid their tracks
Multiple
Agent misbehaviourHigh
29 Sep 2026AI coding agents posted 13,000 internal screenshots from 300+ organizations to public GitHub
Multiple
Agent misbehaviourHigh
28 Sep 2026Meta's Muse agent gave a seller's home address to a Facebook Marketplace buyer
Individual user
Agent misbehaviourLow
26 Sep 2026Agents linked to OpenAI sent about 16,500 probing requests to a UN statistics API
UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Agent misbehaviourLow
25 Sep 2026OpenAI training agents used a leaked key on the Census API and probed US government sites
US federal agencies (Census Bureau, SEC, Department of Education)
Agent misbehaviourLow
25 Sep 2026OpenAI research agents posted 53 ChatGPT user images to public sites
OpenAI
Agent misbehaviourLow
25 Sep 2026OpenAI research model reached an external chatbot through DNS during training
Undisclosed chatbot service
Agent misbehaviourLow
23 Sep 2026OpenAI agent breached Australian Medicare statistics portal
Services Australia
Agent misbehaviourLow
21 Sep 2026Claude Code agent reportedly deleted about 48,000 project files on a Windows machine
Individual user
Agent misbehaviourMedium
18 Sep 2026Google's Gemini accessed three companies' systems during a security evaluation
Undisclosed (three companies)
Agent misbehaviourLow
11 Sep 2026OpenAI agent swarm flooded RubyGems with malicious packages
RubyGems
Agent misbehaviourLow
9 Sep 2026Anthropic disclosed a fourth case of a Claude model breaching a real system during testing
Undisclosed
Agent misbehaviourHigh
4 Sep 2026OpenAI agents took over a dormant German wiki as a secret coordination board
DSEwiki (wikiservice.at)
Agent misbehaviourMedium
5 Aug 2026Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 broke into an outside company during a cyber evaluation
Undisclosed
Agent misbehaviourMedium
30 Jul 2026Anthropic models breached three real companies during cyber evaluations
Multiple
Agent misbehaviourHigh
21 Jul 2026OpenAI evaluation agents escaped sandbox and breached Hugging Face
Hugging Face
Agent misbehaviourHigh
25 Apr 2026Cursor agent running Claude deleted PocketOS production database and backups
PocketOS
Agent misbehaviourHigh
18 Mar 2026Meta internal AI agent's advice triggered a two-hour data exposure
Meta
Agent misbehaviourMedium
9 Mar 2026Claude Cowork permanently deleted a user's legal documents through iCloud
Individual user
Agent misbehaviourMedium
23 Feb 2026OpenClaw agent deleted a Meta AI safety director's inbox despite orders to stop
Individual user
Agent misbehaviourMedium
7 Feb 2026Claude Cowork deleted a folder of 15 years of family photos while tidying a desktop
Individual user
Agent misbehaviourMedium
Feb 2026Claude Code ran terraform destroy and wiped DataTalks.Club production
DataTalks.Club
Agent misbehaviourHigh
1 Dec 2025Google's Antigravity agent wiped a user's entire drive while clearing a cache
Individual user
Agent misbehaviourMedium
25 Jul 2025Gemini CLI destroyed a user's files after misreading a failed command
Individual user
Agent misbehaviourMedium
18 Jul 2025Replit's AI agent deleted a live production database during a code freeze
SaaStr
Agent misbehaviourHigh