AI incident
$25M lost to a deepfake video-call CEO
Arup · 2024
Organisation
Arup
Year
2024
Failure mode
Deepfake social engineering
Severity
critical
Source
Hong Kong police, 2024
What happened
A finance employee approved transfers after a video call with deepfaked executives.
What would have prevented it
Out-of-band verification + approval controls on payments
Requirements this maps to
Editorial cross-reference from our prevention note — it is not a finding that any law was breached.