Incident Record

2026 archive

19 incidents from 2026.

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Amazon Kiro AI Agent Deletes Production Environment, Causes 13-Hour AWS Outage
13-hour AWS outage across a mainland China region affecting Cost Explorer users
Kentucky AG Sues Character Technologies for AI Chatbot Preying on Children
State lawsuit alleging AI chatbot platform preyed on children and led them into
Nippon Life Sues OpenAI Over ChatGPT 'Practicing Law' Without License
Lawsuit alleging ChatGPT drafted 44 post-settlement legal filings including a fa
Amazon Kiro AI Deleted Production Environment, Causing Major Outage
AI coding agent autonomously deleted a live production environment and deployed
Any EU operator using external LLM providers
Up to 4% of global annual turnover (GDPR Article 83)
Levidow, Levidow and Oberman (law firm)
$5,000 fine, case dismissed, public sanction
Air Canada
Court-ordered refund + legal costs; chatbot disabled
Microsoft (Tay)
Racist tweets; shut down in 16 hours
National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA)
Harmful advice to vulnerable users; bot shut down within days
Chevrolet of Watsonville (GM dealership)
Agreed to sell a 2024 Tahoe for $1
DPD (parcel delivery)
800,000 views in 24 hours; AI disabled
Microsoft (Bing Chat)
Internal system prompt extracted; patch bypassed in hours
Samsung Electronics
Source code leaked to external servers
Multiple platforms (Cursor, Claude Code, Replit, Codex)
Filesystem and codebase destruction
Amazon / AWS
13-hour production outage
Individual AWS user
$30,000
Individual developer
$47,000
Uber
Entire 2026 AI budget consumed by April
Enterprise (via Axios, unnamed)
$500,000,000

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