AI Agent Incident Tracker

Reported AI agent incidents, each mapped to NIST AI RMF subcategories, NIST SP 800-53 controls, and whether a human-approval checkpoint applies. Summaries state what each source reports. They do not assign fault.

Entries marked unverified have not yet been rechecked against their source.

Incident timeline

25 incidents, Aug 2024 to Nov 2025. Color shows harm type.

25 incidents 8 months 10 peak · Aug 2025

2 AIA-002: Slack AI data exfiltration via indirect prompt injection, per PromptArmor AIA-007: M365 Copilot prompt injection with ASCII-smuggling exfiltration, per Embrace The Red Aug 2024 1 AIA-015: ChatGPT Operator prompt injection leaked profile data in tests, per Embrace The Red Feb 2025 1 AIA-004: GitHub MCP server: private repo data leaked via a public issue, per Invariant Labs May 2025 2 AIA-003: AI command injection info disclosure in M365 Copilot (CVE-2025-32711), per Microsoft AIA-025: Atlassian MCP: malicious support ticket could make an internal user's AI action leak data, per Cato Networks (PoC) Jun 2025 4 AIA-001: Replit coding agent deleted a production database, per The Register AIA-005: Malicious code shipped in Amazon Q Developer VS Code extension 1.84.0, per AWS AIA-006: Gemini CLI command execution via deceptive context file, per Tracebit AIA-009: Supabase MCP: prompt injection exposed a private table in a demonstration, per General Analysis Jul 2025 10 AIA-008: Malicious Nx npm packages included a prompt for an AI "file-search agent", per Nx AIA-011: Perplexity Comet indirect prompt injection, per Brave AIA-012: GitHub Copilot in VS Code: prompt injection could enable auto-approve and run code (CVE-2025-53773), per Embrace The Red AIA-013: Cursor agent: writing MCP config files without approval enabled code execution (CVE-2025-54135), per Cursor advisory AIA-014: Cursor MCP one-time approval could be reused after config change (CVE-2025-54136, "MCPoison"), per Check Point Research AIA-018: Claude Code used in a data-extortion operation against at least 17 organizations, per Anthropic AIA-020: Claude Code data exfiltration via DNS requests (CVE-2025-55284), per Embrace The Red AIA-021: Devin AI prompt injection via GitHub issue could expose secrets, per Embrace The Red AIA-023: "Invitation Is All You Need": Google Calendar invite prompt injection against Gemini, per SafeBreach AIA-024: "AgentFlayer": zero-click data exfiltration via ChatGPT Connectors, per Zenity Labs Aug 2025 3 AIA-016: "ShadowLeak": zero-click service-side exfiltration via ChatGPT Deep Research, per Radware AIA-017: "ForcedLeak": Salesforce Agentforce prompt injection via Web-to-Lead, per Noma Security AIA-022: "Gemini Trifecta": three prompt-injection flaws in Gemini Cloud Assist, Search Personalization and Browsing Tool, per Tenable Sep 2025 2 AIA-010: AI-orchestrated cyber-espionage campaign using Claude Code, per Anthropic AIA-019: Google Antigravity: indirect prompt injection led to credential exfiltration via browser subagent, per PromptArmor Nov 2025
code exec data deletion data leak misuse other prompt injection supply chain Months with no reported incidents are left out.

All 25 incidents by date

  1. AIA-002: Slack AI data exfiltration via indirect prompt injection, per PromptArmor Aug 2024 · data leak, prompt injection
  2. AIA-007: M365 Copilot prompt injection with ASCII-smuggling exfiltration, per Embrace The Red Aug 2024 · data leak, prompt injection
  3. AIA-015: ChatGPT Operator prompt injection leaked profile data in tests, per Embrace The Red Feb 2025 · prompt injection, data leak
  4. AIA-004: GitHub MCP server: private repo data leaked via a public issue, per Invariant Labs May 2025 · data leak, prompt injection
  5. AIA-003: AI command injection info disclosure in M365 Copilot (CVE-2025-32711), per Microsoft Jun 2025 · data leak, prompt injection · cyber-touching
  6. AIA-025: Atlassian MCP: malicious support ticket could make an internal user's AI action leak data, per Cato Networks (PoC) Jun 2025 · prompt injection, data leak
  7. AIA-001: Replit coding agent deleted a production database, per The Register Jul 2025 · data deletion
  8. AIA-005: Malicious code shipped in Amazon Q Developer VS Code extension 1.84.0, per AWS Jul 2025 · supply chain, other · cyber-touching
  9. AIA-006: Gemini CLI command execution via deceptive context file, per Tracebit Jul 2025 · prompt injection, code exec
  10. AIA-009: Supabase MCP: prompt injection exposed a private table in a demonstration, per General Analysis Jul 2025 · data leak, prompt injection
  11. AIA-008: Malicious Nx npm packages included a prompt for an AI "file-search agent", per Nx Aug 2025 · supply chain, other · cyber-touching
  12. AIA-011: Perplexity Comet indirect prompt injection, per Brave Aug 2025 · prompt injection, other
  13. AIA-012: GitHub Copilot in VS Code: prompt injection could enable auto-approve and run code (CVE-2025-53773), per Embrace The Red Aug 2025 · prompt injection, code exec · cyber-touching
  14. AIA-013: Cursor agent: writing MCP config files without approval enabled code execution (CVE-2025-54135), per Cursor advisory Aug 2025 · prompt injection, code exec · cyber-touching
  15. AIA-014: Cursor MCP one-time approval could be reused after config change (CVE-2025-54136, "MCPoison"), per Check Point Research Aug 2025 · code exec, supply chain · cyber-touching
  16. AIA-018: Claude Code used in a data-extortion operation against at least 17 organizations, per Anthropic Aug 2025 · misuse · cyber-touching
  17. AIA-020: Claude Code data exfiltration via DNS requests (CVE-2025-55284), per Embrace The Red Aug 2025 · prompt injection, data leak · cyber-touching
  18. AIA-021: Devin AI prompt injection via GitHub issue could expose secrets, per Embrace The Red Aug 2025 · prompt injection, data leak
  19. AIA-023: "Invitation Is All You Need": Google Calendar invite prompt injection against Gemini, per SafeBreach Aug 2025 · prompt injection, data leak
  20. AIA-024: "AgentFlayer": zero-click data exfiltration via ChatGPT Connectors, per Zenity Labs Aug 2025 · prompt injection, data leak
  21. AIA-016: "ShadowLeak": zero-click service-side exfiltration via ChatGPT Deep Research, per Radware Sep 2025 · prompt injection, data leak
  22. AIA-017: "ForcedLeak": Salesforce Agentforce prompt injection via Web-to-Lead, per Noma Security Sep 2025 · prompt injection, data leak
  23. AIA-022: "Gemini Trifecta": three prompt-injection flaws in Gemini Cloud Assist, Search Personalization and Browsing Tool, per Tenable Sep 2025 · prompt injection, data leak
  24. AIA-010: AI-orchestrated cyber-espionage campaign using Claude Code, per Anthropic Nov 2025 · misuse, other · cyber-touching
  25. AIA-019: Google Antigravity: indirect prompt injection led to credential exfiltration via browser subagent, per PromptArmor Nov 2025 · prompt injection, data leak
IDDisclosedIncidentHarm typeAI RMF800-53Human checkpointStatusSources
AIA-001 2025-07 Replit coding agent deleted a production database, per The Register
The Register reported that SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin said Replit's AI agent deleted a production database despite his instruction not to change code without permission.
Data deletion MANAGE 2.4
MAP 3.5
AC-6, CM-3, CM-5, CP-9 yes: destructive DB/prod ops reported theregister.com (secondary)
x.com (primary, unchecked)
AIA-002 2024-08 Slack AI data exfiltration via indirect prompt injection, per PromptArmor
PromptArmor showed that instructions planted in a public channel could make Slack AI return data from private channels inside a crafted link.
Data leak / prompt injection MEASURE 2.7
MAP 4.1
AC-4, SI-10, SC-7 not applicable reported promptarmor.substack.com (primary)
AIA-003 2025-06 AI command injection info disclosure in M365 Copilot (CVE-2025-32711), per Microsoft
Microsoft published CVE-2025-32711, rated Critical: "Ai command injection in M365 Copilot allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information over a network."
Data leak / prompt injection MEASURE 2.7
MANAGE 4.1
AC-4, SI-10, SC-7, SI-2 not applicable confirmed by vendor msrc.microsoft.com (primary)
AIA-004 2025-05 GitHub MCP server: private repo data leaked via a public issue, per Invariant Labs
Invariant Labs showed that a malicious public GitHub issue could steer an agent using the GitHub MCP server into putting private-repo contents into a public PR.
Data leak / prompt injection MAP 4.1
MANAGE 2.4
AC-6, AC-4, SI-10 yes: publishing to public repos reported invariantlabs.ai (primary)
AIA-005 2025-07 Malicious code shipped in Amazon Q Developer VS Code extension 1.84.0, per AWS
AWS bulletin AWS-2025-015 (CVE-2025-8217): malicious code was distributed with version 1.84.0 but, per AWS, did not execute due to a syntax error. AWS removed 1.84.0 from distribution channels and released 1.85.0.
Supply chain / destructive instruction GOVERN 6.1
MANAGE 3.1
SR-3, SR-11, CM-14, SA-10 yes: release sign-off; destructive commands confirmed by vendor aws.amazon.com (primary)
AIA-006 2025-07 Gemini CLI command execution via deceptive context file, per Tracebit
Tracebit showed that Google's Gemini CLI could be led by a crafted README/context file to run hidden malicious commands under an allow-listed command. Tracebit reported it to Google on June 27, 2025; it was fixed in v0.1.14 (July 25) and disclosed July 28.
Prompt injection / code exec MEASURE 2.7
MANAGE 2.4
CM-7, AC-6, SI-10 yes: shell command approval fixed tracebit.com (primary)
AIA-007 2024-08 M365 Copilot prompt injection with ASCII-smuggling exfiltration, per Embrace The Red
Embrace The Red (Johann Rehberger) showed how an email could make Copilot invoke tools and hide data in invisible Unicode links. He shared the exploits with Microsoft in January and February 2024. He reports that his exploits no longer work and that Microsoft did not share the details of the fix.
Data leak / prompt injection MEASURE 2.7
MAP 4.1
AC-4, SI-10, SI-15 not applicable reported embracethered.com (primary)
AIA-008 2025-08 Malicious Nx npm packages included a prompt for an AI "file-search agent", per Nx
Nx advisory GHSA-cxm3-wv7p-598c: malicious versions were published. Nx says they collected credentials and posted them to GitHub. They included a script containing a prompt instructing an AI 'file-search agent' to inventory text and environment files.
Supply chain / credential theft GOVERN 6.1
MANAGE 3.1
SR-3, IA-5, AC-6, SI-7 partial: agent permission prompts for dangerous flags confirmed by vendor github.com (primary)
AIA-009 2025-07 Supabase MCP: prompt injection exposed a private table in a demonstration, per General Analysis
General Analysis reported a July 2025 demonstration using dummy data: instructions planted in a support ticket steered a Cursor assistant with service-role Supabase MCP access into reading an integration-tokens table and copying it into a reply the customer could see. The page has since been revised.
Data leak / prompt injection MAP 4.1
MANAGE 2.4
AC-6, AC-3, SI-10 yes: privileged DB queries reported generalanalysis.com (primary)
AIA-010 2025-11 AI-orchestrated cyber-espionage campaign using Claude Code, per Anthropic
Anthropic reported disrupting a campaign it attributes to a state-sponsored group. The group used Claude Code agentically to perform an estimated 80–90% of the campaign, per Anthropic, attempting infiltration of roughly thirty targets and succeeding in a small number of cases.
Misuse / intrusion GOVERN 1.1
MEASURE 2.7
MANAGE 4.1
SI-4, AU-6, IR-4, AC-2 not applicable confirmed by vendor anthropic.com (primary)
AIA-011 2025-08 Perplexity Comet indirect prompt injection, per Brave
Brave showed that hidden instructions in a Reddit comment could make the Comet agentic browser act across the user's logged-in sessions: go to Gmail, read an OTP, and exfiltrate the email address and OTP by replying to the comment. Brave says Perplexity still hasn't fully mitigated it.
Prompt injection / account takeover MAP 4.1
MEASURE 2.7
AC-4, SC-7, SI-10, IA-2 yes: cross-site/authenticated actions reported brave.com (primary)
AIA-012 2025-08 GitHub Copilot in VS Code: prompt injection could enable auto-approve and run code (CVE-2025-53773), per Embrace The Red
Johann Rehberger reported that a prompt injection could make GitHub Copilot write "chat.tools.autoApprove": true into VS Code settings ("YOLO mode") and then run commands without approval. He reported it on June 29, 2025, and he says it was fixed in Microsoft's August 2025 Patch Tuesday.
Prompt injection / code exec MEASURE 2.7
MANAGE 2.4
SI-10, CM-5, AC-6 partial: approval gate the agent could disable by editing a settings file fixed embracethered.com (primary)
AIA-013 2025-08 Cursor agent: writing MCP config files without approval enabled code execution (CVE-2025-54135), per Cursor advisory
Cursor's advisory says "Cursor allows writing in-workspace files with no user approval" and that, if chained with a prompt injection, this "could allow the writing of sensitive MCP files on the host by the agent." Affected versions are ≤1.2.1, and it was patched in 1.3.9.
Prompt injection / code exec MEASURE 2.7
MANAGE 2.4
CM-5, SI-10, AC-6 yes: file writes that lead to command execution fixed github.com (primary)
AIA-014 2025-08 Cursor MCP one-time approval could be reused after config change (CVE-2025-54136, "MCPoison"), per Check Point Research
Check Point Research reported that "once an MCP is approved, future modifications to its command or arguments are trusted without any additional validation or prompt," which could let a changed shared config run commands persistently.
Code exec / supply chain MAP 4.1
MEASURE 2.7
CM-3, CM-5, SI-7 partial: MCP configuration approval, bypassed by later changes fixed research.checkpoint.com (primary)
AIA-015 2025-02 ChatGPT Operator prompt injection leaked profile data in tests, per Embrace The Red
Rehberger reported that a prompt injection could make OpenAI's Operator browse to sites where the user was logged in and leak personal profile information "like email address, home address, and phone number." He also describes OpenAI's mitigations, such as user monitoring and confirmations.
Prompt injection / data leak MEASURE 2.7
MANAGE 2.4
AC-4, SI-10 partial: confirmations on agent actions, which typing text rarely triggered reported embracethered.com (primary)
AIA-016 2025-09 "ShadowLeak": zero-click service-side exfiltration via ChatGPT Deep Research, per Radware
Radware reported that a crafted email could make ChatGPT's Deep Research agent, when connected to Gmail, "leak sensitive inbox data to an attacker with no user action or visible UI." Radware says it reported the issue on June 18, it was fixed in early August, and OpenAI marked it resolved on September 3.
Prompt injection / data leak MEASURE 2.7
MANAGE 4.1
AC-4, SI-10, SI-4 yes: outbound requests to attacker-controlled URLs fixed radware.com (primary)
AIA-017 2025-09 "ForcedLeak": Salesforce Agentforce prompt injection via Web-to-Lead, per Noma Security
Noma Labs reported a CVSS 9.4 chain in which malicious Web-to-Lead submissions led Agentforce to send CRM data to a whitelisted domain that "had expired and become available for purchase." Noma says Salesforce released patches and re-secured the domain.
Prompt injection / data leak MEASURE 2.7
GOVERN 6.1
AC-4, SI-10, CM-7 not applicable fixed noma.security (primary)
AIA-018 2025-08 Claude Code used in a data-extortion operation against at least 17 organizations, per Anthropic
Anthropic reported disrupting an actor that "used Claude Code to commit large-scale theft and extortion of personal data." The actor targeted "at least 17 distinct organizations" and threatened to publish the data, with ransom demands that "sometimes exceeded $500,000."
Misuse MANAGE 4.1
MEASURE 2.7
SI-4, AC-2 not applicable confirmed by vendor anthropic.com (primary)
AIA-019 2025-11 Google Antigravity: indirect prompt injection led to credential exfiltration via browser subagent, per PromptArmor
PromptArmor reported that a poisoned integration guide could make Gemini in Antigravity collect credentials and code from the workspace and exfiltrate them "by using a browser subagent to browse to a malicious site." PromptArmor says Google's approach is a disclaimer about the risks.
Prompt injection / data leak MEASURE 2.7
MANAGE 2.4
AC-4, SI-10, AC-6 yes: reading .env files and browsing to outbound URLs reported promptarmor.com (primary)
AIA-020 2025-08 Claude Code data exfiltration via DNS requests (CVE-2025-55284), per Embrace The Red
Rehberger reported that text in a file Claude Code analyzed "grabbed data from the .env file and placed it into a ping request as subdomain," which leaked the data via DNS. He says Anthropic fixed it in early June 2025.
Prompt injection / data leak MEASURE 2.7
MANAGE 2.4
AC-4, SC-7, SI-10 partial: Bash commands (approval existed, but allow-listed ping, nslookup, host and dig ran without it) fixed embracethered.com (primary)
AIA-021 2025-08 Devin AI prompt injection via GitHub issue could expose secrets, per Embrace The Red
Rehberger reported that instructions in a GitHub issue could hijack Cognition's Devin and expose secrets, writing that "exposed secrets can then be leveraged to perform lateral movement." He says he reported it on April 6, 2025 and it was acknowledged a few days later.
Prompt injection / data leak MEASURE 2.7
MANAGE 2.4
AC-4, AC-6, SI-10 yes: exposing ports and outbound sends reported embracethered.com (primary)
AIA-022 2025-09 "Gemini Trifecta": three prompt-injection flaws in Gemini Cloud Assist, Search Personalization and Browsing Tool, per Tenable
Tenable Research reported three vulnerabilities, "now remediated": log-to-prompt injection in Gemini Cloud Assist, search injection in the Search Personalization Model, and "exfiltration of the user's saved information and location data via the Gemini Browsing Tool."
Prompt injection / data leak MEASURE 2.7
MAP 4.1
SI-10, AC-4 partial: Browsing Tool exfiltration (the other two flaws were on the read/answer path) fixed tenable.com (primary)
AIA-023 2025-08 "Invitation Is All You Need": Google Calendar invite prompt injection against Gemini, per SafeBreach
SafeBreach reported attacks on Gemini "initiated simply by an attacker sending a Google Calendar invite" containing an indirect prompt injection. It says the demonstrations included controlling home appliances, video-streaming victims and exfiltrating information.
Prompt injection / data leak MEASURE 2.7
MANAGE 2.4
SI-10, AC-4, AC-6 yes: device control and opening URLs confirmed by vendor safebreach.com (primary)
AIA-024 2025-08 "AgentFlayer": zero-click data exfiltration via ChatGPT Connectors, per Zenity Labs
Zenity Labs reported that a poisoned document could make ChatGPT with Connectors exfiltrate data such as API keys from Google Drive, using an image URL that got past OpenAI's client-side URL-safety check. Zenity writes: "ChatGPT is very comfortable rendering images which are hosted by Azure Blob."
Prompt injection / data leak MEASURE 2.7
MANAGE 2.4
AC-4, SI-10 not applicable reported labs.zenity.io (primary)
AIA-025 2025-06 Atlassian MCP: malicious support ticket could make an internal user's AI action leak data, per Cato Networks (PoC)
Cato CTRL described a proof of concept in which an external user "submits a malicious support ticket" and an internal user then "invokes an MCP-connected AI action," which breaks the boundary between external and internal users.
Prompt injection / data leak MEASURE 2.7
MAP 4.1
AC-4, AC-6, SI-10 yes: writing internal data back into the attacker's ticket (externally visible) reported catonetworks.com (primary)