Finance worker pays out $25M after VC with deepfake CFO

Re:Finance worker pays out $25M after VC with deepfake CFO by denton-scratch on Monday February 05, 2024 @08:48AM (#39261150)

I once told my colleagues that I didn't think they could find a photo of me on the web.

5 minutes later, one of them came up with a pic: it was a group photo of the company staff, taken a few weeks earlier (with me skulking at the back; I never wanted to be in the photo). It was in an article on the company blog.

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Re:Finance worker pays out $25M after VC with deepfake CFO by ghaff on Monday February 05, 2024 @09:21AM (#39261479)

Volume and lack of metadata is effective anonymity for most people in most circumstances if they've avoided doing anything that creates a public presence. But most people probably have photos at least on the web even if they didn't put them there.

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