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A company lost $25 million after an employee was tricked by deepfakes of his coworkers on a video call


A Hong Kong-based employee attended a video call with deepfake versions of the company's UK-based CFO.

A company lost $25 million after an employee was tricked by deepfake versions of his colleagues, Hong Kong police say. Scammers made off with about $25 million after they used deepfake technology to trick an employee at the Hong Kong branch of a multinational company, local media reported on Sunday, citing the city's police. Superstar Taylor Swift is one of the latest to be caught up in a wave of sexually explicit deepfake videos that went viral on X and Telegram last month.

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