{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-30T06:27:13.212Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"digital-yuan","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":2,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":1,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":1,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2024-taiwan-police-say-ring-used-ai-deepfake-face-videos-of-55-people-in-china-to-pass-digital-yuan-app-checks-and-take-their-savings","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"由中國非法的調照商取得被害人照片後，搭配AI深偽技術，再使用星鏈低軌衛星的網路服務，破解對岸的數字人民幣的刷臉驗證，綁定被害人帳號，將其帳戶內的存款盜轉。; 利用深偽技術製作被害人臉部驗證影片，順利通過數字人民幣APP身分驗證程序。","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"利用深偽技術（Deepfake）製作被害人臉部驗證影片，順利通過「數字人民幣」APP身分驗證程序，以綁定被害人金融帳戶，藉此盜取移轉被害人存款。","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"According to the CIB, after offshore scam call centres obtained personal data of people in mainland China, the ring used deepfake technology, described by PTS as AI, to make face-verification videos of the victims that passed the digital-yuan app's identity check, then bound the victims' bank accounts and transferred their deposits.","causal_attribution":"One origin: the CIB's account, relayed by PTS (with a unit head's quotation) and the Liberty Times."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"刑事局清查，目前至少有55名中國籍被害人，財損金額約新台幣2億元。","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"該集團成功騙取55名中國民眾，詐騙金額折合台幣約2億","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The CIB counts at least 55 victims in mainland China and losses of about NT$200 million.","causal_attribution":"The CIB's count; one origin. PTS records it as a count so far ('目前至少')."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"員警進到台中北屯這間公寓大樓，將嫌犯壓制。; 檢方近日偵查終結，依詐欺、妨害電腦使用、組織犯罪防制條例等罪嫌，起訴","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"於2024年11月間直搗機房; 經透過刑事局國際刑警科協請泰國移民總局協助; 並查扣星鏈設備一組，去年6月將他遣返回台。; 台中地檢署近日偵結，依詐欺、妨害電腦使用及組織犯罪","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Police raided the ring's flat in Beitun, Taichung, in November 2024, and the alleged financier was arrested in Thailand and returned to Taiwan; Taichung prosecutors indicted four people for fraud, obstruction of computer use and organised crime.","causal_attribution":"The CIB's account of its investigation and the prosecutors' indictment as relayed by two outlets; one origin. The indictment text was not read."}],"effects":[{"label":"bank deposits taken after deepfake face videos of them passed a payment app's identity check","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://news.pts.org.tw/article/793450","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese on 2026-10-30; translated by the research agent (an AI). PTS News report of 2 February 2026 (page timestamp 13:31), HTTP 200, relaying the CIB's account and quoting a CIB unit head.","independence_group":"taiwan-cib-central-feb-2026"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/society/breakingnews/5329536","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese on 2026-10-30; translated by the research agent (an AI). Liberty Times report of 2 February 2026 (page timestamp 10:00), HTTP 200, relaying the same CIB account; one institutional origin with s1.","independence_group":"taiwan-cib-central-feb-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","privacy"],"unknowns":["Dates of the individual account takeovers (only the November 2024 raid and the 2024 intelligence are dated)","Which tool generated the face-verification videos and how the photos were obtained beyond 'an illegal photo supplier'","How the NT$200 million was split among the victims and whether any was recovered","The outcome of the prosecution; no verdict was found by 30 October 2026"],"geography":{"basis":"Event: the ring operated from a flat in Beitun, Taichung (s1, s2), and, according to the CIB, the scheme began by cheating people in the China region of their personal data ('騙取中國地區民眾個資', s1, quoting a CIB squad leader; '騙中國地區民眾個資', s2), so part of the deception reached people in China; the digital-yuan app's country of origin is not used as evidence of location. Affected people: described as people in the China region ('中國地區民眾', s2). Court: indictment by the Taichung District Prosecutors Office (s2). Cambodia (call centre) and Thailand (arrest) are recorded in the narrative only.","court_countries":["TW"],"event_countries":["TW","CN"],"affected_person_countries":["CN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a reported case: Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau, which investigated the ring, says it made deepfake face-verification videos of at least 55 people in mainland China that passed the digital-yuan app's identity check and took about NT$200 million from their accounts; prosecutors indicted four people. All claims rest on the CIB's account relayed by PTS and the Liberty Times.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-30"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The CIB, which investigated the ring, says it used deepfake technology to make face-verification videos of the victims from their photos, and a CIB unit head told PTS that these videos passed the digital-yuan app's identity-verification step; PTS describes the technique as AI deepfake (c1). The generated videos impersonated each victim toward the app (depicted_or_impersonated), and passing the check is what let the ring bind the victims' bank accounts and move their deposits (c1, c2). The tool is not named and the police have not published how the videos were made beyond this description.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Taiwan police say a ring used AI deepfake face videos of at least 55 people in China to pass a digital-yuan app's identity check and take about NT$200 million","summary":"Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau said on 2 February 2026 that a fraud-services ring working with offshore scam call centres obtained personal data and photos of people in mainland China and used deepfake technology, which public broadcaster PTS reports as AI, to make face-verification videos of the victims. The videos passed the identity check of China's digital-yuan (e-CNY) app, letting the ring bind the victims' bank accounts and move their savings. Police count at least 55 victims and losses of about NT$200 million. Officers raided the ring's flat in Beitun, Taichung, in November 2024, and its financier was arrested in Thailand and returned to Taiwan; Taichung prosecutors indicted four people for fraud, computer misuse and organised crime. The dates of the individual thefts are not reported.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-02-02","aiSystem":"Deepfake (AI) technology used to generate face-verification videos of the victims from obtained photos, as described by Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau (tool not named)","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau, deepfake face videos of at least 55 people in mainland China passed the digital-yuan app's identity check, and their bank deposits, about NT$200 million in total, were transferred out.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":55,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"The CIB says its count so far is at least 55 victims ('目前至少有55名中國籍被害人', PTS); the Liberty Times gives 55. Recorded as a documented minimum.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"TW","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"pending","primarySourceUrl":"https://news.pts.org.tw/article/793450","primarySourceLabel":"PTS News, 2 February 2026: Criminal Investigation Bureau breaks AI deepfake fraud, 55 Chinese victims, NT$200 million","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-30T03:12:26.090996+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-30T03:12:26.090996+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake-face-video","identity-verification-bypass","account-takeover","digital-yuan","taiwan","indictment"]}]}