{"id":182019,"date":"2024-02-04T12:25:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T18:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/finance-worker-pays-out-25-million-after-video-call-with-deepfake-chief-financial-officer"},"modified":"2024-02-04T12:25:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T18:25:11","slug":"finance-worker-pays-out-25-million-after-video-call-with-deepfake-chief-financial-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/finance-worker-pays-out-25-million-after-video-call-with-deepfake-chief-financial-officer","title":{"rendered":"Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake \u2018chief financial officer\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/finance-worker-pays-out-25-million-after-video-call-with-deepfake-chief-financial-officer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company\u2019s chief financial officer in a video conference call, according to Hong Kong police.<\/p>\n<p>The elaborate scam saw the worker duped into attending a video call with what he thought were several other members of staff, but all of whom were in fact deepfake recreations, Hong Kong police said at a briefing on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(In the) multi-person video conference, it turns out that everyone [he saw] was fake,\u201d senior superintendent Baron Chan Shun-ching told the city\u2019s public broadcaster RTHK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company\u2019s chief financial officer in a video conference call, according to Hong Kong police. The elaborate scam saw the worker duped into attending a video call with what he thought were several [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}