Feb 5, 2024

• A company lost $25 million after an employee was tricked by deepfake versions of his colleagues, Hong Kong police say.
• The person had attended a video call with deepfakes of the firm's UK-based CFO and other colleagues.
• Hong Kong police said scammers created the deepfakes based on publicly available video.

"In January, an employee in the company's finance department received a message from someone who said they were the company's UK-based chief financial officer, South China Morning Post reported, citing police. The employee then had a video call with the company's CFO and other company employees — all of which turned out to be deepfakes.

Based on instructions they got during that call, the employee transferred HK$200 million, or $25.6 million, to various Hong Kong bank accounts across 15 transfers, according to the SCMP."
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