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BBC Reporter's Twin Brother Cracked HSBC's Voice ID Authentication
- Occurred
- May 19, 2017
- Published
- May 19, 2017
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
HSBC’s voice recognition authentication system was fooled after seven repeated attempts by a BBC reporter's twin brother who mimicked his voice to access his bank account.
Developers
- Nuance Communications
Deployers
- HSBC UK
Harmed parties
- HSBC UK customers
- Dan Simmons
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Voice ID bypass demonstrates authentication failure and potential privacy breach, but no confirmed financial loss or mass harm reported.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8