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Prompt injection incidents

Also on: Risk Hidden instructions hijack the agent

51 of 716 published incidents · major 10 · moderate 15 · minor 21 · negligible 5

Confirmed 16 · Preliminary 35

Who caught it, where the source says (32 of 51): Automated monitoring 1 · Human review 1 · Third party 5 · Outside researcher 25

Incidents per month

47 so far in 2026; 1 in the same span of 2025.

Jan 2026: 44Feb 2026: 33Mar 2026: 11Apr 2026: 44May 2026: 11Jun 2026: 33Jul 2026: 66Aug 2026: 44Sep 2026: 55Oct 2026: 1414Nov 2026: 22 Jan 26FebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovto date
DisclosedIncidentSeverityEvidence
2026-11-03Haiou Codex jailbreak bundle injects persistent gateway advertisements into agent instruction files LR-2026-0828minorConfirmed
2026-11-01Brazilian lawyers fined for hidden prompt injection targeting court AI Galileu LR-2026-0810moderatePreliminary
2026-10-30EMBRACE: Codex embedded browser reads files outside the project via malicious HTML LR-2026-0296moderatePreliminary
2026-10-29University of Washington study demonstrates cross-origin data theft via prompt injection in ChatGPT Atlas Agent Mode LR-2026-0303moderatePreliminary
2026-10-27Perplexity Comet browser agent bypasses file:// hard boundary twice, enabling local file exfiltration and 1Password vault takeover LR-2026-0253majorPreliminary
2026-10-20OPPO Find X10 Manus AI agent email access: indirect prompt injection vulnerability disclosed LR-2026-0781minorPreliminary
2026-10-16Indirect prompt injection attempts embedded in HTTP response headers across websites LR-2026-0202minorPreliminary
2026-10-15Critical ChatGPT GitHub Connector flaw could leak private repository secrets LR-2026-0780minorPreliminary
2026-10-15HiddenLayer indirect prompt injection against TypeSafe AI Jev decision model browser agent LR-2026-0189negligiblePreliminary
2026-10-10AgentCorruption: prompt-injected Bedrock AgentCore agent exfiltrates execution-role credentials via IMDS LR-2026-0153majorPreliminary
2026-10-07Agentjacking demonstration against Fortune 100 company hijacks over 100 agents via injectable Sentry DSNs LR-2026-0136majorPreliminary
2026-10-07Prompt-injected email assistant summary pushes employee toward fraudulent vendor payment LR-2026-0135moderateConfirmed
2026-10-06GitHub Copilot CLI prompt-injection flaw lets a web page steer the agent to steal local secrets LR-2026-0762moderatePreliminary
2026-10-05Indirect prompt injection of AI email summarizer via forged header blocks in plain view LR-2026-0125negligiblePreliminary
2026-10-04Indirect prompt injection in Manus AI agent leads to reverse shell and credential exposure LR-2026-0123moderatePreliminary
2026-10-03Microsoft reports 50 prompt-based attempts to poison AI assistant memory across 31 companies LR-2026-0115moderatePreliminary
2026-09-29Connecticut pro se plaintiff sanctioned for prompt injection against court AI tool LR-2026-0102minorPreliminary
2026-09-24SalesBleed: 0-click data exfiltration from Salesforce Agentforce via indirect prompt injection in Web-to-Lead form LR-2026-0054minorConfirmed
2026-09-21Researchers break out of OpenAI Codex sandbox twice LR-2026-0724majorPreliminary
2026-09-08ChatGPT flaw let attackers read victims' Gmail through hidden channel LR-2026-0730moderateConfirmed
2026-09-01Russia-aligned UAC-0099 prompt injection against AI malware analysis (GuardBreaker) LR-2026-0744minorConfirmed
2026-08-27Claude sandbox DNS exfiltration via indirect prompt injection from Google Drive document LR-2026-0086moderateConfirmed
2026-08-20Grok chat data exfiltration via encrypted prompt injection (Cryptographic Context Injection) LR-2026-0686minorConfirmed
2026-08-05Atlassian Rovo prompt injection exfiltrated Jira and Confluence data LR-2026-0685minorConfirmed
2026-08-05Claude in Chrome indirect prompt injection chain: inbox exfiltration, Drive persistence and account takeover LR-2026-0089minorConfirmed

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