AI incidents at Columbia Banking System

Last swept Oct 21, 2026 · 0 incidents on record

Has Columbia Banking System had a publicly reported AI incident?

As of Oct 21, 2026, BankingNewsAI's sweep (26 queries, 0 candidate stories reviewed) found no publicly reported AI incident at Columbia Banking System that meets the register's sourcing bar. That is a dated finding about public reporting, not a statement that nothing happened.

Columbia's AI incidents since January 2022 against the industryColumbia: no incident on record. Grey dots: the other 62 incidents in the register.Feb 8, 2022: Budapest Bank Zrt. — Hungarian DPA fines Budapest Bank HUF 250m for AI emotion analysis of customer-service calls (Regulatory finding, severity 2 of 5)Feb 17, 2022: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. — Suits alleged Wells Fargo's automated mortgage underwriting discriminated against minority applicants (Litigation, severity 3 of 5)May 2, 2022: Citigroup (Citigroup Global Markets Limited) — Citi trading algorithm sells $1.4bn of European stocks after an input error; UK and German fines (Trading automation, severity 4 of 5)Jul 2022: Binance — Binance says scammers used an AI deepfake of its communications chief in listing-scam calls (Deepfake fraud, severity 1 of 5)Jul 14, 2022: Bank of America — Regulators fine Bank of America $225m over automated fraud filter that froze unemployment-benefit cards (Fraud model, severity 4 of 5)Jul 26, 2022: Upstart — Investors' class action says Upstart misled them about its AI underwriting model (Litigation, severity 2 of 5)Aug 10, 2022: Oportun — CFPB fines Oportun's Hello Digit $2.7m after its automated savings algorithm overdrafted customers (Other, severity 3 of 5)Oct 3, 2022: The Charles Schwab Corporation — Class action alleged Schwab's Voice ID examined callers' voiceprints without written consent (Litigation, severity 1 of 5)Oct 6, 2022: JPMorgan Chase — Callers sued over Nuance voice biometrics on Chase customer-service calls (Litigation, severity 1 of 5)Nov 27, 2022: Webster Bank, N.A. — Breach at ML fraud-analytics vendor Guardian Analytics exposes Webster Bank customers' data (Vendor AI breach, severity 3 of 5)2023: Bank of America — AI clone of a client's voice calls a Bank of America banker to move money; attempt fails (Voice clone, severity 1 of 5)Jan 4, 2023: Wells Fargo — DoNotPay says an AI voice clone got Wells Fargo to refund fees; the bank says the call didn't happen as shown (Voice clone, severity 1 of 5)Feb 22, 2023: Lloyds Bank (Lloyds Banking Group) — Vice reporter breaks into his own Lloyds account with an AI-cloned voice (Voice clone, severity 1 of 5)Apr 18, 2023: Betterment — SEC fines robo-adviser Betterment $9m after coding errors stopped automated tax-loss harvesting (Other, severity 3 of 5)Apr 28, 2023: JPMorgan Chase (Chase) — WSJ columnist's AI voice clone passes Chase credit-card voice biometrics (Voice clone, severity 1 of 5)May 1, 2023: Coinbase — Coinbase sued under Illinois BIPA over face-scan identity verification (Litigation, severity 1 of 5)May 31, 2023: Deutsche Kreditbank AG (DKB) — Berlin DPA fines a bank, reported as DKB, €300,000 over an unexplained automated credit-card refusal (Regulatory finding, severity 2 of 5)Aug 27, 2023: Fortress Trust and Retool — Deepfaked voice in Retool breach linked to about $15m crypto theft at Fortress Trust (Voice clone, severity 3 of 5)Dec 2023: Revolut — Revolut faces Illinois BIPA class action over selfie identity checks (Litigation, severity 1 of 5)Dec 17, 2023: Navy Federal Credit Union — Suits alleged Navy Federal's semi-automated mortgage underwriting discriminated against minority applicants (Litigation, severity 2 of 5)Feb 5, 2024: OKX and OnlyFake — 404 Media passes OKX identity checks with a fake ID from 'neural network' site OnlyFake (Synthetic identity, severity 1 of 5)Mar 18, 2024: Delphia (USA) Inc. and Global Predictions Inc. — SEC's first 'AI-washing' cases: robo-advisers Delphia and Global Predictions pay $400,000 (AI-washing, severity 3 of 5)Mar 27, 2024: Upstart — Independent monitor finds approval disparities for Black applicants in Upstart's AI lending model (Bias finding, severity 2 of 5)Jul 25, 2024: ING Bank N.V. — Dutch human-rights institute finds ING's automated payment screening discriminated over non-Dutch names (Bias finding, severity 3 of 5)Oct 2, 2024: Starling Bank — FCA fines Starling £29m after its automated sanctions screening checked only part of the list (Regulatory finding, severity 4 of 5)Oct 10, 2024: Rimar Capital USA, Inc. / Rimar Capital, LLC — SEC charges Rimar Capital over false claims of an AI-driven trading platform (AI-washing, severity 3 of 5)Nov 5, 2024: PlainsCapital Bank (Hilltop Holdings) and Pathward, N.A. — PlainsCapital Bank customer sues after an alleged AI voice clone redirected a $20,000 transfer (Voice clone, severity 2 of 5)Nov 12, 2024: Metro Bank — FCA fines Metro Bank £16.7m after its automated transaction monitoring missed 60m transactions (Regulatory finding, severity 3 of 5)Nov 28, 2024: Santander UK (Banco Santander) and Halifax (Lloyds Banking Group) — BBC reporter's AI-cloned voice passes Santander and Halifax phone-banking Voice ID (Voice clone, severity 1 of 5)Dec 7, 2024: Kasikornbank — Thai court orders Kasikornbank to pay part of a loss to an AI face-swap fake-official video-call scam (Deepfake fraud, severity 2 of 5)Dec 16, 2024: State Bank of India — SBI warns that deepfake videos of its top management are promoting investment scams (Brand impersonation, severity 1 of 5)Jan 21, 2025: DNB Bank — Deepfaked DNB executives in a fake Teams meeting try to get Singapore staff to pay out millions (Deepfake fraud, severity 1 of 5)Jan 22, 2025: Kakao Pay — Korea fines Kakao Pay KRW 5.97bn for sending 40m users' data to Alipay to build a credit-risk scoring model (Regulatory finding, severity 3 of 5)Mar 20, 2025: ABN AMRO Bank N.V. — Man used deepfaked selfies and ID photos to open 47 ABN AMRO accounts in other people's names (Deepfake fraud, severity 3 of 5)Mar 26, 2025: HSBC (Singapore) — Deepfake Zoom call leads a Singapore finance director to wire US$499,000 from an HSBC account; funds recovered (Deepfake fraud, severity 2 of 5)Apr 2025: Goldman Sachs — Deepfakes of Goldman strategists David Kostin and Abby Joseph Cohen used in Instagram stock-tip scams (Brand impersonation, severity 1 of 5)Apr 1, 2025: Kotak Mahindra Bank — AI-manipulated video of Uday Kotak promoting an investment scheme goes viral (Brand impersonation, severity 1 of 5)Apr 11, 2025: Nubank (Nu Holdings) — Deepfake videos push a fake 'Nubank indemnity' scam in Brazil (Brand impersonation, severity 1 of 5)Apr 28, 2025: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. — Class action alleged JPMorgan's HireVue AI video interviews were an unlawful lie-detector test (Litigation, severity 2 of 5)May 8, 2025: Klarna — Klarna resumes hiring human agents after AI-first customer service produced 'lower quality' (AI job-cut reversal, severity 2 of 5)Jun 17, 2025: Bank of Montreal (BMO Financial Group) — Instagram ads use AI deepfakes of BMO strategist Brian Belski to lure investors (Brand impersonation, severity 1 of 5)Jul 2025: Banco Santander — Deepfake ads clone Santander chair Ana Botín's voice to push fake investment platforms (Brand impersonation, severity 1 of 5)Jul 10, 2025: Earnest Operations LLC — Massachusetts AG settles with student lender Earnest for $2.5m over AI underwriting disparate impact (Bias finding, severity 3 of 5)Jul 29, 2025: Commonwealth Bank of Australia — Commonwealth Bank reverses 45 job cuts it attributed to an AI voice bot (AI job-cut reversal, severity 2 of 5)Sep 2, 2025: Banco Popular Dominicano — Banco Popular Dominicano reports a generative-AI deepfake of its executive president (Brand impersonation, severity 1 of 5)Nov 4, 2025: Upstart — Upstart says its AI underwriting model over-reacted to macro signals, cutting approvals; investors sue (Credit decisioning, severity 3 of 5)Dec 9, 2025: PKO Bank Polski — PKO BP warns that criminals use AI to forge bank employee IDs in impersonation scams (Brand impersonation, severity 1 of 5)Jan 2026: Klarna — Klarna processed payments for nine months for shops advertising with celebrity deepfakes (Deepfake fraud, severity 2 of 5)Feb 2026: Fideuram - Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking and Intesa Sanpaolo — Fideuram wires €95m after fake Intesa CEO messages and an AI-cloned lawyer's voice (Voice clone, severity 4 of 5)Feb 26, 2026: Commonwealth Bank of Australia — Commonwealth Bank refers about A$1bn of suspect home loans, some reportedly AI-forged, to police (Other, severity 3 of 5)Mar 12, 2026: Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A. and Isybank S.p.A. — Italy's privacy regulator fines Intesa Sanpaolo €17.6m for profiling 2.4m customers to move them to Isybank (Regulatory finding, severity 3 of 5)Apr 2026: Westpac New Zealand and Kiwibank — Deepfakes of Westpac NZ and Kiwibank chief executives used in Facebook investment-scam ads (Brand impersonation, severity 1 of 5)May 2026: Lloyds Bank — Lloyds refunds estate of 82-year-old customer lured by an AI Farage deepfake investment scam (Deepfake fraud, severity 2 of 5)May 4, 2026: Bankr (Bankrbot) and xAI (Grok) — Morse-code prompt injection via Grok makes AI wallet agent Bankrbot send about $150,000-200,000 in tokens (Prompt injection, severity 2 of 5)May 5, 2026: CB Financial Services, Inc. (Community Bank, Carmichaels, PA) — Community Bank files 8-K after an employee put customer SSNs into an unauthorized AI app (Data leak to an LLM, severity 3 of 5)May 13, 2026: Klarna and Pagaya Technologies — Pagaya sues Klarna, alleging it 'distilled' and misappropriated its AI underwriting model (Litigation, severity 2 of 5)Jun 3, 2026: Monzo and Barclays — AI-generated 'Monzo Slots' and 'Barclays Slots' casino ads impersonate UK banks on social media (Brand impersonation, severity 1 of 5)Jun 22, 2026: Deutsche Bank National Trust Company (as trustee) — D.C. Court of Appeals strikes Deutsche Bank National Trust brief citing four AI-invented cases (Litigation, severity 2 of 5)Jul 3, 2026: NatWest Group — Deepfake image of NatWest CEO Paul Thwaite spread on X as scam bait (Brand impersonation, severity 1 of 5)Sep 17, 2026: Libra Internet Bank — Libra Internet Bank's OpenAI-based assistant 'Lia' calls a customer an 'idiot' (Chatbot failure, severity 1 of 5)Sep 29, 2026: Shinhan Bank, KB Kookmin Bank, Hana Bank, BNK Busan Bank and Yegaram Savings Bank — AI-agent-assisted intrusions breach Shinhan, KB Kookmin, Hana and 13 other Korean financial firms (Other, severity 5 of 5)Oct 2, 2026: U.S. Bank National Association (named in the complaint, not a defendant) — U.S. Bank customers sue Pegasystems alleging its Voice AI secretly analysed their customer-service calls (Litigation, severity 2 of 5)20222023202420252026
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