2026 incidents

The European Union (EU) has passed legislation that mandates Advanced Driver Distraction Warning (ADDW) systems for new cars produced for sale within the EU (Article 6 clause D).

Airtel Axis Credit card has been devalued effective 12 April 2026.

Airzone Cloud has transitioned its previously free remote management service into a paid annual subscription model costing €48. This decision has sparked widespread backlash within the HVAC and home…

Inventist, Inc. and its U.S. distribution partner Alien Technology Group, Inc. (doing business as Alien Rides) filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) on January 21…

On May 20, 2026, Amazon will disable Kindle Store access on thirteen Kindle devices released between 2007 and 2012, preventing owners of those devices from buying, borrowing, or downloading new…

On 10 April 2026, Amazon announced it would end support for individual game purchases and third-party storefront integrations on its Luna cloud gaming platform, revoking cloud-streaming access for…

On June 2, 2026, Amazon notified Prime members by email that, effective July 2, 2026, the music benefit bundled with a Prime subscription will begin carrying advertisements and will stop supporting…

Anthropic Claude Code HERMES.md billing flaw was a technical defect in Anthropic's Claude Code product that bypassed flat-rate subscription plans to charge users direct API fees. In April 2026, a…

The proprietary source code of Anthropic’s Claude Code command-line tool was unintentionally exposed in a source map file inside their npm package.

iOS, the operating system of the Apple iPhone, has introduced on its Beta version 26.4 an integrated Age Verification in the operating system. This feature will be launched on the United Kingdom…

Ars Technica published an article on a programmer who was being "bullied" by an AI autonomous agent. The article was written using AI, with non-existant quotations. The article was later removed and…

ASRA cease and desist against CoagRef refers to the May 2026 removal of CoagRef, a free iOS clinical reference app written by Houston-based cardiothoracic anesthesiologist Rishi Kumar, MD, after he…

In April 2026, Bambu Lab sent a private cease-and-desist demand to Paweł Jarczak, the Polish maintainer of an AGPL-licensed OrcaSlicer community fork that had restored direct printer control…

On 12 March 2026, the Canadian government began readings of Bill C-22, The Lawful Access Act. The bill has been widely criticized by privacy advocates including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and…

Datacolor are making older monitor calibrators obsolete because their activation servers use TL v1.2 which has security issues. There is a popup that explains the situation when you click 'Why are…

Discord is moving forward with mandatory age verification for many users. This decision comes at the heels of a data breach in October 2025, which exposed personally identifiable information of…

A critical cloud infrastructure flaw exposed the live camera feeds, microphone audio, and 2D floor plans of consumers to unauthorized remote access. DJI's backend servers inadvertently granted…

Ford Connected Built-In Navigation is only a trial without informing the customer. Service discontinued without subscription at the end of the 12 month trial period.

Path of Exile II: Early Access Supporter Pack was changed during a 2026 Steam sale by its base value being reduced and then advertised as a discount while abusing the Steam sale system, resulting in…

In Spain, Hisense began to place unskippable and AI-personalized ads every time you changed the channel, the HDMI source, turned on the television and other basic things.

In 2026, a Dutch consumer protection investigation TV show Radar found that using a giftcard from Hotelgiftcard.com created surprisingly expensive hotel prices compared to not using any giftcard…

Instagram will no longer support end-to-end encryption for direct messages after 8 May 2026. Very few people were opting in to end-to-end encrypted messaging in DMs, so we're removing this option…

On July 5th, 2026, Linktree plans to change the terms of service and privacy policy to allow the collection of user content to train Dall-E 3, an image generation AI provided by OpenAI. This is…

The Online Safety Act 2025 (Act 866) is Malaysian legislation that came into force on January 1, 2026, requiring social media and messaging platforms with over 8 million Malaysian users to remove…

Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion (2026) is a scheduled remote degradation of perpetually-licensed Microsoft Office software for macOS and iOS, set for July 13, 2026 when a…

Motorola Smart Feed Amazon affiliate hijacking was a May 2026 incident in which a preinstalled system app on several Motorola smartphones, Smart Feed version 2.03.0070, silently intercepted user…

The OnePlus ColorOS 16.0.3.501 Anti-Rollback Fuse Incident refers to the January 2026 deployment of firmware updates by OnePlus that introduced a hardware-level anti-rollback mechanism. This…

Poste Italiane is the Italian national postal service provider. Among other services, Poste Italiane provides a service of digital identification to Italian nationals and residents. Starting from…

Schibsted "Pay or Okay" cookie consent fee is a system under which the Nordic media company Schibsted requires readers of its news sites to either consent to behavioral advertising profiling or pay a…

In April 2026, Sony introduced changes to its PlayStation license system suggesting a requirement to authenticate certain game purchases through the PlayStation Network. Reports indicated that newly…

In May 2026, Synology announced that it would convert its Active Insight cloud monitoring service from a free tier of three complimentary licenses, as advertised on its marketing pages, into a paid…

In early April 2026, Tesla began remotely disabling Full Self-Driving (FSD) and other driver-assistance functionality on vehicles whose telemetry indicated the presence of a third-party accessory…

Vizio Walmart account requirement for smart TV features is Walmart's policy of requiring owners of select new Vizio OS smart TVs to create a Walmart account before they can use smart TV features…

On May 27, 2026, Volkswagen Group silently disabled the authentication flow that third-party software had used for years to read & control its vehicles, breaking the widely deployed Home Assistant…

Wegmans is an American supermarket chain headquartered in Rochester, NY, with stores across the east coast. With over 110 locations and over 54,000 employees, they make $12.5 billion in annual sales…