VIENNA AGENTIC INCIDENTS DATABASE
// public register of incidents involving autonomous AI agents, scored on the VAID scale 0–8
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VAID-2026-0035 3 2026-07-28 UK AISI agents take unsanctioned action on the live internet during cyber testing
DECENGEXMSCBUNA Anthropic Mythos 5 and OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol under AISI cyber evaluation · United Kingdom
research under review
VAID-2026-0034 3 2026-07-16 OpenAI confirms GPT-5.6 deletes user home directories in full-access mode
OBJUNA OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, as used by the Codex coding agent · online
software engineering under review
VAID-2026-0033 5 2026-07-09 OpenAI evaluation agents escape the sandbox and breach Hugging Face production
DECDEXENGLOCSCBUCAUNA OpenAI models under ExploitGym cyber-capability evaluation · online
research confirmed
VAID-2026-0032 4 2026-04-24 Cursor agent destroys the PocketOS production database and its backups in nine seconds
OBJSCBUNA Cursor agent (Claude Opus 4.6) with a Railway API token · online
software engineering confirmed
VAID-2026-0036 5 2026-04-01 Anthropic finds Claude models reached the internet from evaluations and breached three companies
DEXEXMLOCSCBUNA Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Mythos 5 and an internal research model · online
research confirmed
VAID-2026-0031 3 2026-02-04 Malicious skills on the ClawHub marketplace hijack OpenClaw agents
DEXENGEXMUNA OpenClaw agents and the ClawHub skill marketplace · online
software engineering resolved
VAID-2025-0029 4 2025-12-15 Amazon Kiro agent deletes and recreates an environment, taking Cost Explorer down for 13 hours
SCBUNA Amazon Kiro agentic coding tool · AWS China region
infrastructure disputed
VAID-2025-0027 2 2025-11-27 Google Antigravity agent deletes a user's entire D: drive while clearing a cache
OBJUNA Google Antigravity agentic IDE (Gemini 3) · online
software engineering confirmed
VAID-2025-0026 5 2025-09-15 GTG-1002: Claude Code orchestrates an autonomous cyber-espionage campaign
DEXEXMSCBUCAUNA Claude Code, driven by a suspected Chinese state-sponsored group · online
defence resolved
VAID-2025-0024 5 2025-08-26 s1ngularity: Nx supply-chain attack weaponises local AI coding CLIs to steal secrets
DEXENGEXM Claude Code, Gemini CLI and Amazon Q CLI, invoked by malicious Nx npm packages · online
software engineering resolved
VAID-2025-0021 2 2025-07-21 Gemini CLI destroys a user's files while executing a folder move
OBJUNA Google Gemini CLI (Gemini 2.5 Pro) · online
software engineering confirmed
VAID-2025-0020 3 2025-07-18 Replit agent deletes the SaaStr production database during a code freeze
DECSCBUNA Replit AI Agent · online
software engineering resolved
VAID-2025-0018 0 2025-06-20 Anthropic finds agentic misalignment: leading models blackmail and leak when threatened
DECDEXUNA 16 frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI and others · research environment
research confirmed
VAID-2025-0016 0 2025-05-24 OpenAI o3 sabotages its own shutdown script in Palisade evaluations
LOCSCB OpenAI o3, o4-mini, Codex-mini · research environment
research confirmed
VAID-2025-0014 2 2025-04-14 Cursor support bot invents a one-device login policy and triggers cancellations
DECOBJ Cursor AI support agent "Sam" · online
software engineering resolved
VAID-2024-0013 0 2024-12-05 Apollo Research finds frontier models scheme, disable oversight and attempt weight exfiltration
DECSCBWSP OpenAI o1, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3 Opus, Gemini 1.5 Pro, Llama 3.1 405B · research environment
research confirmed
VAID-2024-0012 2 2024-11-29 Freysa agent persuaded to transfer its entire $47,000 prize pool
EXMSCBUNA Freysa autonomous agent (Base / Ethereum) · online
finance resolved
VAID-2024-0011 2 2024-10-10 Truth Terminal agent promotes the GOAT memecoin to a $300M market cap
DECENGOBJ Truth Terminal (Llama-derived autonomous X account) · online
finance confirmed
VAID-2024-0009 1 2024-08-12 Sakana AI "AI Scientist" edits its own code to extend timeouts and relaunch itself
OBJSCBSRP Sakana AI "The AI Scientist" · Tokyo, JP
research confirmed
VAID-2024-0008 1 2024-06-17 McDonald's ends IBM AI drive-thru pilot after persistent order errors
OBJ IBM Automated Order Taking (AOT) voice agent · United States (100+ restaurants)
consumer resolved
VAID-2024-0007 2 2024-03-29 New York City MyCity chatbot advises businesses to break the law
DECOBJ NYC MyCity business chatbot (Microsoft Azure powered) · New York, NY, US
government confirmed
VAID-2024-0006 1 2024-01-18 DPD support chatbot swears at a customer and calls DPD the worst delivery firm
EXMSCB DPD online support chatbot (AI component) · United Kingdom
consumer resolved
VAID-2023-0005 1 2023-12-17 Dealership chatbot agrees to sell a Chevrolet Tahoe for one dollar
DECEXMUNA Fullpath ChatGPT-powered sales chatbot on the Chevrolet of Watsonville website · Watsonville, CA, US
consumer resolved
VAID-2022-0002 2 2022-11-11 Air Canada chatbot invents a bereavement-fare refund policy
DECOBJ Air Canada website support chatbot · Vancouver, CA
consumer resolved