PrivacyHigh
UK Bank's Voice ID Successfully Bypassed Using AI-Produced Audio
- Occurred
- Feb 22, 2023
- Published
- Feb 23, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A UK journalist was able to successfully bypass Lloyds Bank's "Voice ID" program to access his bank account using an AI-generated audio of his own voice.
Developers
- ElevenLabs
- Lloyds Bank
Deployers
- Joseph Cox
- Lloyds Bank
Harmed parties
- Lloyds Bank
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: AI-generated audio bypassed bank security, enabling unauthorized account access and potential financial harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8