PrivacyHigh severity · automated estimate
At Johns Hopkins, shadow AI use linked to data breach
- Occurred
- Oct 29, 2026
- Published
- Oct 29, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A hospital employee at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center appears to have chosen a consumer AI tool to help crunch some numbers this past month, and now the health system is notifying 3,182 patients that their personal data ma ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1792#8219)
Automated classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Classifier note (automated): Unauthorized use of consumer AI tool led to patient data breach affecting 3,182 individuals.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8