AI-Generated Code Blamed for 1-in-5 Breaches

A new report has revealed that AI-written code is already responsible for a significant share of security incidents, with one in five organisations suffering a major breach linked directly to code produced by generative AI tools.

Vulnerabilities Found in AI Code

The finding comes from cybersecurity company Aikido Security’s State of AI in Security & Development 2026, which features the results of a wide-ranging survey of 450 developers, AppSec engineers and CISOs across Europe and the US.