DJI

Products: Drone. Risk band: High RobotRisk index 55.3/100 (severity- and time-weighted incidents) · ranked 2 of 19 among Drones / eVTOL companies with incidents (177 tracked).

Analyst brief

DJI's index of 55.3 ranks 2 of 19 companies in Drones / eVTOL with incident history. The entries divide into two distinct failure-mode clusters: three cyber/regulatory entries concerning data exposure and government market restrictions (a 2018 account vulnerability disclosure, a 2025 FCC Covered List addition barring new drone models, and 2026 cloud-authorization and bug-bounty disclosures affecting nearly 7,000 connected robot vacuums), and two injury/regulatory entries concerning physical operation, including a 2017 US Army fleet ban and a 2025 drone-strike injury to a child. The record is mixed regulatory- and press-driven, combining government restriction actions with vulnerability disclosures and one operational injury. The recurrence of cyber/data-exposure entries across multiple years, from 2018 through 2026, constitutes the dominant and repeating failure mode in this record, distinct from and more frequent than the physical-injury entries.

Risk index

55.3/100RobotRisk index

28.4/100Median index across the 19 Drones / eVTOL companies with incident history (177 tracked, 158 with none)

2 of 19Rank in Drones / eVTOL (of 19 with incident history)

HighRisk band

Incident timeline

Comparisons over time

Per-type breakdown

Incident type	Unique incidents	Share
regulatory	3	43%
cyber	3	43%
injury	1	14%

Unique incident list

7 unique incidents on file for this company.

Sev	Date	Type	Location	Incident	Source
S3	03 Aug 2026	regulatory	USA	FCC public notice would retroactively revoke sales authorization for DJI Air 3S, Mini 5 Pro, Avata 360 over LiDAR classification · 3 drone models	Tech Times / SpaceWar
S3	07 Mar 2026	cyber	—	DJI Pays $30K Bug Bounty After Researcher Hacks 7,000 Robot Vacuums	The Tech Buzz
S2	11 Feb 2026	cyber	Multiple countries	DJI Cloud Authorization Bug Exposes Data From Nearly 7,000 Robot Vacuums · ~7,000 devices across 24 countries	Popular Science
S3	22 Dec 2025	regulatory	—	FCC adds DJI to Covered List, bars new drone models from US market · market-wide (new model imports only; existing fleet unaffected)	DroneDJ
S3	02 Aug 2025	injury	London, England, UK	Kent Police DJI Matrice 30T crashes into child, severe hand injury · 1 unit	DroneXL
S2	~Mar 2018	cyber	—	Check Point Research discloses DJI account/data vulnerability · platform-wide (patched, no confirmed exploitation)	Check Point Research
S3	02 Aug 2017	regulatory	—	US Army orders fleet-wide ban on DJI drones over cyber vulnerabilities · fleet-wide (US Army)	Defense One

S3 03 Aug 2026 · regulatory · FCC public notice would retroactively revoke sales authorization for DJI Air 3S, Mini 5 Pro, Avata 360 over LiDAR classification

USA1 supporting source rowmedium confidence

Sev	Date	Supporting source row	Source
S3	03 Aug 2026	FCC public notice would retroactively revoke sales authorization for DJI Air 3S, Mini 5 Pro, Avata 360 over LiDAR classification	Tech Times / SpaceWar

S3 07 Mar 2026 · cyber · DJI Pays $30K Bug Bounty After Researcher Hacks 7,000 Robot Vacuums

Location not specified1 supporting source rowmedium confidence

Sev	Date	Supporting source row	Source
S3	07 Mar 2026	DJI Pays $30K Bug Bounty After Researcher Hacks 7,000 Robot Vacuums	The Tech Buzz

S2 11 Feb 2026 · cyber · DJI Cloud Authorization Bug Exposes Data From Nearly 7,000 Robot Vacuums

Multiple countries1 supporting source rowmedium confidence

Sev	Date	Supporting source row	Source
S2	11 Feb 2026	DJI Cloud Authorization Bug Exposes Data From Nearly 7,000 Robot Vacuums	Popular Science

S3 22 Dec 2025 · regulatory · FCC adds DJI to Covered List, bars new drone models from US market

Location not specified1 supporting source rowhigh confidence

Sev	Date	Supporting source row	Source
S3	22 Dec 2025	FCC adds DJI to Covered List, bars new drone models from US market	DroneDJ

S3 02 Aug 2025 · injury · Kent Police DJI Matrice 30T crashes into child, severe hand injury

London, England, UK1 supporting source rowhigh confidence

Sev	Date	Supporting source row	Source
S3	02 Aug 2025	Kent Police DJI Matrice 30T crashes into child, severe hand injury	DroneXL

S2 ~Mar 2018 · cyber · Check Point Research discloses DJI account/data vulnerability

Location not specified1 supporting source rowhigh confidence

Sev	Date	Supporting source row	Source
S2	~Mar 2018	Check Point Research discloses DJI account/data vulnerability	Check Point Research

S3 02 Aug 2017 · regulatory · US Army orders fleet-wide ban on DJI drones over cyber vulnerabilities

Location not specified1 supporting source rowhigh confidence

Sev	Date	Supporting source row	Source
S3	02 Aug 2017	US Army orders fleet-wide ban on DJI drones over cyber vulnerabilities	Defense One

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