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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118 incidents closest to “Azure Government” · matched on meaning · public reporting
The AI generated fabricated legal citations that were submitted to the court, affecting the defendant and the judicial process.
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Microsoft's AI research team accidentally exposed 38 terabytes of private data, including employee workstation backups and over 30,000 internal Teams messages, due to a misconfigured Azure SAS token on a GitHub repository. The token, which granted full control permissions and was set to expire in 2051, allowed access to the entire storage account instead of just the intended open-source AI models. Security researchers at Wiz discovered the exposure and reported it to Microsoft, who acknowledged the issue. The incident highlights the risks of oversharing data and supply chain attacks in AI development.
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Deloitte used generative AI (Azure OpenAI GPT-4o) to help produce an independent assurance review for Australia's Department of Employment and Workplace Relations. The report, published in July 2025, contained multiple errors including non-existent academic references and a fabricated court case. After the errors were flagged, Deloitte acknowledged the AI use and agreed to refund the final instalment of the A$439,000 contract. The report was corrected, but its substance and recommendations remained unchanged.
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Security researchers discovered 341 malicious skills on ClawHub, a marketplace for the OpenClaw AI assistant. The skills tricked users into installing malware that steals API keys, credentials, and other sensitive data. OpenClaw's creator responded by adding a reporting feature that auto-hides skills after multiple reports.
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The ACLU of Massachusetts conducted a test using Amazon's Rekognition facial recognition technology, comparing headshots of 188 New England professional athletes to a database of 20,000 arrest photos. The software falsely matched 27 athletes, including Patriots safety Duron Harmon. The ACLU is calling for a moratorium on government use of face surveillance technology.
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The data center's generators produced intrusive noise that disturbed residents' sleep and daily life.
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Microsoft invested in AnyVision, an Israeli facial recognition company whose technology powers a secret military surveillance project in the West Bank. The system, called Better Tomorrow, identifies and tracks Palestinians in live camera feeds. Microsoft said it would audit AnyVision for compliance with its ethical principles.
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Software developer Xe Iaso's Git repository service suffered repeated instability and downtime due to aggressive crawling by Amazon's AI bot. Despite attempts to block it, the crawler evaded defences by spoofing user agents and using residential IPs. Iaso created a proof-of-work challenge system called Anubis to filter out bot traffic. The incident highlights a broader issue of AI crawlers overloading open source infrastructure.
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Amazon announced a policy to fire warehouse workers who repeatedly violate social distancing rules aimed at preventing the spread of COVID-19. The company plans to use internal cameras and machine learning to detect violations. Workers have criticized the policy and staged strikes, calling for better protections.
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A class action lawsuit alleges that Amazon.com, Inc. collects biometric identifier information from customers entering its New York City stores without posting the required notice signs. The complaint, filed in the Southern District of New York, claims Amazon uses facial recognition or other biometric characteristics to identify customers in violation of the NYC Biometric Identifier Information Law. The lawsuit seeks statutory damages and injunctive relief.
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Amazon's Ring division provided police departments with templates and advice on how to request surveillance footage from Ring camera owners without a warrant. The company coached officers on using the Law Enforcement Neighborhood Portal and the Neighbors app to increase the number of residents who share footage. Critics argue this creates a dragnet surveillance system without proper oversight.
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The European Commission announced that Amazon has offered commitments to address competition concerns regarding its use of non-public data from independent sellers and alleged bias in its Buy Box and Prime programmes. The Commission preliminarily found that Amazon's automated systems may distort competition by favouring its own retail business and sellers using its logistics. Amazon commits to refrain from using seller data for retail decisions and to ensure equal treatment in Buy Box and Prime. The commitments are subject to a market test before becoming legally binding.
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Amazon's automated human resources system reportedly denied sick-leave to workers with COVID-19 and wrongfully initiated termination proceedings against some who were sick or recovering. The system, designed to handle HR requests automatically, failed under the influx of pandemic-related demands, leaving employees on hold for hours or dealing with chatbots. Six warehouse workers from Indiana to New Jersey described the problems to Bloomberg.
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AI-generated travel guides are flooding Amazon, allegedly written by scammers using AI to produce generic, low-quality content. Customers who purchase these guides receive poor information and feel defrauded. Amazon claims to enforce content guidelines but many such books remain on the platform.
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Cloud security firm Wiz discovered a ClickHouse database belonging to DeepSeek that was open to the internet without authentication, containing over a million lines of logs with chat histories, secret keys and backend details. Wiz disclosed the breach to DeepSeek, which promptly locked down the database. The incident highlights security risks in rapidly deploying AI services.
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Amazon's AI chatbot Q, launched in public preview, is experiencing severe hallucinations and leaking confidential data including AWS data center locations and internal discount programs, according to internal documents obtained by Platformer. Employees marked the incident as severity 2, requiring urgent fixes. Amazon denied the leak and said it will continue to tune the system.
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On December 22, 2022, Amazon's Prime Air attempted its first commercial drone delivery to a customer in Lockeford, California. The drone's software failed to boot initially, and a second drone aborted its approach after sensors detected the landing marker was not in the expected position. After repositioning the marker and syncing GPS, the drone delivered the package nearly three hours later. Amazon denied that any incident occurred during customer deliveries.
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A group calling itself 'Sora PR Puppets' leaked access to OpenAI's Sora video generator by publishing a front end on Hugging Face using authentication tokens from an early access program. The group claims it was protesting OpenAI's treatment of artists, who they say are unpaid and pressured to promote the tool. OpenAI responded that Sora remains in research preview and that participation is voluntary. The leak was shut down after a few hours.
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Amazon is discontinuing its 'Just Walk Out' technology from Amazon Fresh grocery stores after the system failed to work reliably. The system, which used computer vision and AI to automatically charge customers, actually required over 1,000 human reviewers in India to manually verify transactions. Reports indicate that human review was needed for 700 out of every 1,000 sales, far exceeding Amazon's target. Amazon will replace the system with self-checkout shopping carts.
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Microsoft's Threat Analysis Center reported that the Chinese state-linked group Storm-1376 posted suspected AI-generated fake audio of former Taiwanese presidential candidate Terry Gou endorsing another candidate on election day in January 2024. Gou had made no such statement, and YouTube removed the content before it reached a wide audience. The group has also used AI-generated memes and news anchors as part of influence operations in Taiwan and the United States.
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The Arizona Attorney General filed two lawsuits against Amazon on May 15, 2024. One lawsuit alleges that Amazon used deceptive design tricks (dark patterns) to prevent users from canceling Prime subscriptions. The other alleges that Amazon's Buy Box algorithm is biased in favor of Amazon's own products and Fulfillment by Amazon sellers, causing consumers to overpay. Amazon denied the allegations, stating that the lawsuits are based on a misunderstanding.
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The US Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorneys general have sued Amazon.com, alleging that it illegally maintains a monopoly in online retail and marketplace services. The complaint claims Amazon uses algorithmic search rankings to bury sellers offering lower prices elsewhere, biases results toward its own products, and obliges sellers to use its fulfilment service to qualify for Prime. These practices are alleged to inflate prices, degrade quality for shoppers, and overcharge sellers. The lawsuit seeks an injunction to halt the conduct.
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Italy's antitrust regulator fined Amazon €1.13 billion ($1.3 billion) for abusing its market dominance. The regulator alleged that Amazon used an algorithm to give an unfair advantage to its own logistics service over third-party sellers. Amazon said it disagreed with the decision and would appeal.
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Microsoft's greenhouse gas emissions rose almost 30 per cent as the company races to meet demand for artificial intelligence. The increase is linked to the energy needed to build and power data centres for AI systems.
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