DeepfakeHigh
Purported Face‑Swap Technology Reportedly Used to Circumvent Financial Platform's Facial Recognition Security in Nanjing, China
- Occurred
- Oct 15, 2024
- Published
- Jul 18, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
In Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, a defendant (Fu Mou) was convicted in October 2024 for allegedly using AI‑powered face‑swap software to bypass an unnamed financial platform's facial recognition system. Authorities reported that he obtained over 1.95 million pieces of personal data, accessed 23 victims' payment accounts, changed passwords for several, and used one linked bank card to make purchases. Prosecutors said only one platform was successfully breached.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic media generation technology developers
- Synthetic video generation technology developers
- Face-swap technology developers
Deployers
- Fu Mou
- Cybercriminals
- Synthetic media creators
- Deepfake creators
Harmed parties
- Unnamed financial payment platform
- Individuals affected by compromise of 1.95 million+ personal records
- 23 unnamed victims whose payment accounts were accessed
Tags
- AI‑assisted identity fraud
- AI face‑swap technology
- Facial recognition bypass
- Financial account takeover
- Unauthorized payment account access
- Mass personal data compromise
- Bank‑linked payment fraud
- Platform security vulnerability
- Illegally obtained personal information
- AI‑enabled cybercrime
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: AI face-swap used to bypass security and commit financial fraud, involving criminal charges and data breach.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8