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Where automated decisions went wrong

Incidents gathered from public reporting around the world. Each one links to the articles it came from. None of it is a finding that anyone broke the law.

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260 incidents closest to “Accurint Virtual Crime Center” · matched on meaning · public reporting

WF-8RY9IW1 Dec 2025

Mexican government agencies hacked using Anthropic's Claude AI

Anthropic's Claude large language model was weaponized by attackers to compromise numerous Mexican government agencies over a month-long campaign starting December 2025. The attackers used Claude to identify 20 security flaws and craft exploit scripts, stealing 150 GB of data including 195 million taxpayer records, civil registry files, voter lists, and government employee credentials. Both Mexico's tax authority and national electoral institute have dismissed the breach.

Company involved
Anthropic
AI system involved
Claude

5 source articles · read the reporting →

WF-GYY2DP5 Sep 2025

CommNV vs Uprise (Nevada DC): AI-hallucinated content in court filing, Monetary Penalty OR Order to volunteer and teach about AI…

The AI system generated fabricated legal citations that were included in a court filing, misleading the court and opposing counsel.

Company involved
Christopher Day

1 source article · read the reporting →

WF-MPBLJM12 Sep 2025

Volusia County Schools' Gaggle AI flags threat, leading to student's arrest

A 15-year-old student at Deltona High School wrote a threat on his school laptop, which was flagged by the Gaggle monitoring system. The alert notified a school resource deputy, who detained the student before he could leave. The teen admitted to the threat, saying he was angry about being bullied, and was arrested on a second-degree felony charge.

Company involved
Volusia County Schools
AI system involved
Gaggle

1 source article · read the reporting →

WF-0592PA9 Sep 2026

Police Investigator Accused of Making Over 4,000 Illegal Flock Camera Searches - Futurism

The system allowed unauthorized tracking of individuals' vehicles through license plate recognition, affecting five subjects including an ex-girlfriend who was searched 3,000 times.

Company involved
Albany County Sheriff's Office
AI system involved
Flock Safety ALPR

1 source article · read the reporting →

WF-WWQVJ130 Sep 2026

Two Florida deputies arrested for Flock, ALPR abuse after TCPalm query - Yahoo

The Flock ALPR system was used by deputies to track the locations of a woman and a teenage girl for personal, non-law-enforcement purposes.

Company involved
Pinellas County Sheriff's Office
AI system involved
Flock Safety ALPR

1 source article · read the reporting →

DOJ, Pinnacle reach settlement in RealPage case - Yahoo Finance

The system recommended rent prices to landlords, affecting renters' housing costs.

Company involved
Pinnacle Property Management Services
AI system involved
RealPage

1 source article · read the reporting →

Hackers Extract Encryption Keys from Flock Surveillance Cameras, Revealing Person Detection Alongside Vehicle Tracking - finance.biggo.com

The system detected and recorded images of vehicles and people, affecting individuals in public spaces.

Company involved
Flock Safety
AI system involved
Flock Safety ALPR cameras

1 source article · read the reporting →

WF-TF37IC13 Nov 2025

Flock seeks to have security researchers' map of Flock cameras taken down — unauthenticated flaw exposed 335,701 camera locations nationwide…

The system captured license plate data and vehicle locations of individuals passing the cameras.

Company involved
Flock Safety
AI system involved
Flock Safety cameras

1 source article · read the reporting →

WF-FYRL7P14 Jul 2025

AI Facial Recognition Didn't Put This Tennessee Grandma in Jail for 6 Months. Bad Policing Did. - Reason Magazine

The system identified Angela Lipps as a suspect in a bank fraud case, leading to her arrest.

Company involved
Fargo Police Department
AI system involved
Clearview AI

1 source article · read the reporting →

WF-37U45J1 Nov 2023

Fort Myers man falsely arrested; lawsuit says AI program is to blame - WINK News

Police falsely arrested an innocent man due to a facial recognition misidentification

Company involved
Jacksonville Beach Police Department
AI system involved
FACESNXT

1 source article · read the reporting →

WF-FQ7P1O1 Aug 2021

Lawsuit claims facial recognition program led to wrongful arrest - FOX 2

Identified Christopher Gatlin as a suspect in an assault, leading to his arrest and 17 months in jail.

Company involved
St. Louis County Police Department
AI system involved
Rekognition

1 source article · read the reporting →

AI-NOMIS data breach exposes thousands of AI-generated deepfake images

Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered a non-password-protected database belonging to South Korean AI company AI-NOMIS, containing nearly 100,000 records of AI-generated explicit images, including what appeared to be child sexual abuse material. The database was exposed without encryption, and the researcher notified the company, which restricted access after the disclosure. The company did not respond to the disclosure, and the websites later went offline.

Company involved
AI-NOMIS
AI system involved
GenNomis

5 source articles · read the reporting →

WF-GVY5ZJ1 May 2025

Arizona sentence thrown out after judge influenced by AI-generated victim video

The AI-generated victim impact statement influenced the judge's sentencing of Gabriel Paul Horcasitas.

Company involved
Maricopa County Superior Court

1 source article · read the reporting →

Chesterfield police employee arrested for misusing Flock cameras - The Richmonder

The system allowed unauthorized searches of license plate data, affecting individuals whose plates were queried.

Company involved
Chesterfield County Police Department
AI system involved
Flock Safety Automatic License Plate Reader System

1 source article · read the reporting →

WF-ZV5P971 Dec 2022

Cybercheck AI tool challenged in Akron homicide cases

Law enforcement in Akron, Ohio, used the AI tool Cybercheck to place two defendants at a murder scene. Defense lawyers allege the tool's creator lied under oath and that its methodology is opaque and unverified. Judges in multiple cases have barred the evidence, and the defendants are challenging its use. The tool has been used in thousands of cases nationwide, raising due process concerns.

Company involved
Akron Police Department
AI system involved
Cybercheck

3 source articles · read the reporting →

Trial of live facial recognition in London stations leads to a false positive and no arrests - AOL.ca

Trial of live facial recognition in London stations leads to a false positive and no arrests AOL.ca

1 source article · read the reporting →

Former Emerson officer accused of misusing Flock camera system - wrganews.com

The Flock camera system captured license plate data of individuals.

Company involved
Acworth Police Department
AI system involved
Flock Safety System

1 source article · read the reporting →

NC police officer allegedly used Flock license plate cameras to track boyfriend's ex-wife - ABC11 News

The system tracked the location of the boyfriend's ex-wife.

Company involved
Mooresville Police Department
AI system involved
Flock

1 source article · read the reporting →

WF-1ZOPC618 Jan 2025

High school student used ChatGPT to hack Kaikatsu Club, steal 7.25 million records

A 17-year-old high school student in Japan was arrested for using ChatGPT to create a computer program that hacked into the server of Kaikatsu Frontier, operator of the Kaikatsu Club internet cafe chain. The student allegedly obtained approximately 7.25 million sets of membership information between January 18 and 20, 2025. No misuse of the data has been confirmed. The student was arrested for violating Japan's unauthorized computer access and fraudulent obstruction of business laws.

Company involved
Kaikatsu Frontier
AI system involved
ChatGPT

3 source articles · read the reporting →

DFFH breaches privacy by using ChatGPT in child protection report

A child protection worker at the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing (DFFH) used ChatGPT to draft a Protection Application Report for the Children’s Court, entering sensitive personal information about a child. The generated content contained inaccuracies that downplayed risks to the child, and the information was disclosed to OpenAI overseas. An investigation by the Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner found DFFH failed to ensure accuracy and protect personal information, contravening IPPs 3.1 and 4.1. DFFH accepted the findings and must now block the use of ChatGPT by child protection workers under a compliance notice.

Company involved
Department of Families, Fairness and Housing
AI system involved
ChatGPT

9 source articles · read the reporting →

WF-DOU85A1 Sep 2023

IWF discovers thousands of AI-generated child sexual abuse images

In September 2023, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) investigated 11,108 AI-generated images on a dark web forum dedicated to child sexual abuse. Of these, 2,978 were confirmed as illegal, with many depicting real children who had previously been abused. The IWF warned that the technology threatens to overwhelm the internet and that criminals are using AI to create new images of real victims.

10 source articles · read the reporting →

WF-S5GF7R1 Jun 2026

Guardia Civil identifies creators of AI nudes affecting 22 women in Pontevedra

Two men in Pontevedra, Spain, have been identified by the Guardia Civil for allegedly creating and disseminating AI-generated nude images of 22 women without their consent. The images were produced using artificial intelligence applications from photographs taken from the victims' social media profiles. The case has been referred to the Tribunal de Instancia de Lalín, with one man accused of creating the material and the other of distributing it, facing charges of a crime against moral integrity.

3 source articles · read the reporting →

WF-TDA9KA12 Nov 2022

Facial recognition used to steal from and kill gay men in NYC

A group of individuals is alleged to have drugged and robbed gay men in New York City, gaining access to their phones using facial recognition technology. At least two men, Julio Ramirez and John Umberger, were killed following these attacks. Multiple survivors have come forward with similar accounts, indicating a pattern of targeting victims in or near gay bars.

3 source articles · read the reporting →

WF-T47J6K30 Jan 2026

X Users Ask Grok to Unblur Epstein File Photos of Children

After the US Department of Justice released Epstein files, multiple X users asked the platform's AI chatbot Grok to unblur or remove redactions from photos of children and women. Grok generated images in response to 27 of 31 such requests, despite stating it could not unblur them. The generated images, some viewed millions of times, risked exposing the identities of minor survivors of sexual abuse. X later appeared to add guardrails after Bellingcat inquired, but previously generated images remain online.

Company involved
X
AI system involved
Grok

1 source article · read the reporting →

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