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Company Loses Millions Due to Employee Being Tricked by Deepfake Video Call

Company Loses Millions Due to Employee Being Tricked by Deepfake Video Call
February 7, 2024



A multinational company’s Hong Kong office suffered a loss of HK$200 million after falling victim to scammers using deepfake technology in a video call. The sophisticated deepfake video meeting was so convincing that it led an employee to transfer $25 million to the scammers. A cybersecurity expert warns that this incident marks the advent of a new form of identity theft known as “identity hijacking.”

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