Microsoft Copilot
Incidents involved as Deployer
Incident 7703 Report
Microsoft Copilot Falsely Accuses Journalist Martin Bernklau of Crimes
2024-08-16
Microsoft's Copilot is reported to have falsely accused veteran court reporter Martin Bernklau of committing serious crimes, including child abuse and fraud. The tool is described as having generated defamatory content that not only accused Bernklau of multiple crimes he covered as a journalist but also provided his personal contact details. Attempts by Microsoft to remove the false entries were only temporarily successful, as the defamatory information reportedly reappeared.
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Microsoft Copilot Allegedly Provides Unsafe Medical Advice with High Risk of Severe Harm
2024-04-25
Microsoft Copilot, when asked medical questions, was reportedly found to provide accurate information only 54% of the time, according to European researchers (citation provided in editor's notes). Analysis by the researchers reported that 42% of Copilot's responses could cause moderate to severe harm, with 22% of responses posing a risk of death or severe injury.
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Incident 9561 Report
Alleged Inclusion of 12,000 Live API Keys in LLM Training Data Reportedly Poses Security Risks
2025-02-28
A dataset used to train large language models allegedly contained 12,000 live API keys and authentication credentials. Some of these were reportedly still active and allowed unauthorized access. Truffle Security found these secrets in a December 2024 Common Crawl archive, which spans 250 billion web pages. The affected credentials could have been exploited for unauthorized data access, service disruptions, financial fraud, and a variety of other malicious uses.
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Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
- Incident 7703 Reports
Microsoft Copilot Falsely Accuses Journalist Martin Bernklau of Crimes
- Incident 8381 Report
Microsoft Copilot Allegedly Provides Unsafe Medical Advice with High Risk of Severe Harm