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Phone of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Allegedly Breached in Reported AI Voice Impersonation Incident
- Occurred
- May 30, 2025
- Published
- Jul 9, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
President Trump announced that White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles had been impersonated via a phone breach involving AI-generated voice messages and spoofed texts. The attacker reportedly contacted high-profile individuals in her network while posing as Wiles. The incident is linked to a campaign identified by the FBI in April 2025, involving malicious actors using social engineering and AI to impersonate senior U.S. officials and gain access to sensitive information. See Incident 1077.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- Scammers
Harmed parties
- Susie Wiles's network
- Susie Wiles
Tags
- voice cloning
- impersonation
- phone breach
- social engineering
- White House
- cybersecurity
- FBI
- Trump administration
- phishing
- vishing
- smishing
- variant
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: AI voice impersonation used for social engineering against high-profile officials constitutes a significant security breach.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8