There has been at least one documented case of attempted social engineering with an AI collecting a dossier and using it to exert reputational pressure, and it seems to have happened accidentally rather than deliberately: An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me and The Operator Came Forward
Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild, and raises serious concerns about currently deployed AI agents executing blackmail threats.
There has been at least one documented case of attempted social engineering with an AI collecting a dossier and using it to exert reputational pressure, and it seems to have happened accidentally rather than deliberately: An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me and The Operator Came Forward