SurveillanceMedium
Hive Box Facial-Recognition Locks Hacked by Fourth Graders Using Intended Recipient’s Facial Photo
- Occurred
- Oct 9, 2019
- Published
- Oct 17, 2019
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Facial-recognition locks by Hive Box, an express delivery locker company in China, were easily opened by a group of fourth-graders in a science-club demo using only a printed photo of the intended recipient’s face, leaving contents vulnerable to theft.
Developers
- Hive Box
Deployers
- Hive Box
Harmed parties
- Hive Box customers
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Facial recognition system vulnerability exploited by children, enabling unauthorized access to delivery lockers.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8