{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-09-30T07:20:38.453Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"image-manipulation","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"2026","response":"regulatory","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":2,"coverage":{"cases":2,"countries":2,"languages":3,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":2,"minors":2,"coreRelations":2,"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":"2026-oldenburg-school-email-accounts-ai-deepfakes-of-children-threats","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Der Polizei ist bekannt geworden, dass in den vergangenen Tagen über einen oder mehrere Schüleraccounts der E-Mail-Server Oldenburger Schulen zahlreiche Nachrichten versandt wurden.'; 'Die Nachrichten enthielten unter anderem sogenannte Deepfakes, also manipulierte Darstellungen von Kindern und Jugendlichen.'; 'Darüber hinaus enthielten die versandten Nachrichten zum Teil Gewaltandrohungen sowie Aufforderungen, sich selbst etwas anzutun.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Einige Bilder könnten nach erster Einschätzung der Ermittler/innen kinder- oder jugendpornografische Inhalte darstellen.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'Nach einer ersten Bewertung könnten einzelne dieser Darstellungen strafrechtlich relevant sein und den Straftatbestand der Verbreitung kinder- beziehungsweise jugendpornografischer Inhalte erfüllen.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In the days before 22 September 2026, numerous messages were sent through one or more student accounts on the email servers of Oldenburg schools; they included deepfakes (manipulated depictions of children and young people), some of which the police, on a first assessment, consider could meet the offence of distributing child or youth sexual abuse material, and some contained threats of violence and calls to harm oneself.","causal_attribution":"Police statement (reviewer translation: 'The messages contained, among other things, so-called deepfakes, that is, manipulated depictions of children and young people'). Whether the material is criminal is under investigation."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Wie ein Polizeisprecher sagte, sollen einige der mit Künstlicher Intelligenz erstellten Bilder den Straftatbestand der Verbreitung kinder- oder jugendpornografischer Inhalte erfüllen.'; 'Schüler und Eltern hatten sich bei der Polizei gemeldet und die Vorfälle angezeigt.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"dpa, reporting a police spokesman's statements, describes the images as created with artificial intelligence; students and parents had contacted the police and reported the incidents.","causal_attribution":"dpa's report of a police spokesman (reviewer translation: 'Students and parents had contacted the police and reported the incidents')."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Ob und auf welche Weise sich bislang unbekannte Personen unberechtigt Zugang zu diesen Accounts verschafft haben, wird durch die Ermittler geprüft.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Die Ermittlungen zur Urheberschaft und zu den Hintergründen dauern an.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'Die Polizei arbeitet eng mit den betroffenen Schulen zusammen. Erste digitale Spuren wurden bereits gesichert und werden derzeit ausgewertet.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Police are investigating whether unknown persons gained unauthorised access to the student accounts, have secured first digital traces, and are working with the affected schools; authorship remains under investigation.","causal_attribution":"Police statement as published and relayed."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Über einen oder mehrere Schüleraccounts der Plattform IServ sind in den vergangenen Tagen Nachrichten an Oldenburger Schulen verschickt worden'; 'Das Unternehmen habe keinen Zugriff auf die Nachrichten oder Einsicht in die Schüleraccounts.'; 'Wir gehen aber davon aus, dass der Vorfall nur in Oldenburg stattgefunden hat.'; 'Nach aktuellem Stand sei nicht bekannt, dass Passwörter von Nutzern kompromittiert wurden'; 'keine Hinweise darauf, dass die von den Schulen betriebenen IServ-Instanzen selbst kompromittiert worden seien'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The accounts were on the IServ school platform; an IServ spokesman said the company has no access to the messages or accounts and assumes the incident occurred only in Oldenburg; it said no compromise of user passwords was known and there was no indication that the school-operated IServ instances had been compromised.","causal_attribution":"RND's reporting of the platform and of the company spokesman's statement; RND attributes the account description to the Oldenburg police, but the inspected police release does not name IServ, so the platform identification rests on RND."}],"effects":[{"label":"deepfake images of children and young people, some possibly sexual abuse material, were distributed to students through school email accounts together with threats and calls to self-harm","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/68440/6356847","kind":"official_statement","access":"read","language":"de","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-27 (police statement, 22 September 2026; German). Quotations are German originals; English renderings are reviewer translations, no human translator.","independence_group":"pi-oldenburg-stadt"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.zeit.de/news/2026-09/22/deepfake-bilder-an-oldenburger-schulen-verschickt","kind":"wire_report","access":"read","language":"de","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-27 (dpa Niedersachsen via Zeit Online, 22 September 2026; German). Adds a police spokesman's statements; same police chain as s1. Reviewer translation.","independence_group":"pi-oldenburg-stadt"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.rnd.de/lokales/niedersachsen/braunschweig/pornografische-deepfakes-ueber-schueleraccounts-verschickt-braunschweiger-softwarefirma-aeussert-CCBUGZ3AXNAFNBSQO7RTFYIBLM.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"de","translation_note":"Live fetch returned 403; read on 2026-09-27 via Internet Archive capture (RND, 23 September 2026; German). Police facts relayed from the same police chain; the IServ spokesman's statement is RND's own reporting. Reviewer translation. Its lede repeats the dpa lede verbatim.","independence_group":"rnd-iserv-statement"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.oldenburger-onlinezeitung.de/blaulicht/deepfakes-manipulierte-bilder-schueleraccounts-237639.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"de","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-27 (Oldenburger Onlinezeitung, 22 September 2026; German). Rewrite of the police statement. Reviewer translation.","independence_group":"pi-oldenburg-stadt"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","privacy"],"unknowns":["Who created the deepfakes and with which AI tool; whether the student accounts were compromised or used by their holders.","Whether the depicted children and young people are real, identifiable students at the schools, and how many were depicted.","How many schools (more than one per the police statement), messages and recipients were involved (police: 'zahlreiche Nachrichten').","Exact dates of sending ('in den vergangenen Tagen' before 22 September 2026).","Any effects on the depicted children or recipients beyond the reports to police, and any school measures."],"geography":{"basis":"The messages were sent through accounts on the email servers of Oldenburg schools and the Oldenburg-Stadt police are investigating (police statement). The depicted children's location is not stated, so affected_person_countries rests on the student recipients at Oldenburg schools. No court proceedings are reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["DE"],"affected_person_countries":["DE"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a core depicted_or_impersonated case: the police report AI-made deepfakes of children and young people, some possibly sexual abuse material, sent through school email accounts together with threats and self-harm calls, reported by students and parents. One police chain; RND adds the platform provider's statement. No child or school is identified.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-27"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The police statement calls the images deepfakes, 'manipulierte Darstellungen von Kindern und Jugendlichen'; dpa's report of a police spokesman's statements describes them as images created with artificial intelligence ('mit Künstlicher Intelligenz erstellten Bilder'); the written police statement does not mention AI. No tool is identified and no forensic finding is published.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Oldenburg, Germany: numerous messages sent through one or more student accounts on Oldenburg schools' email servers contained AI-manipulated deepfake images of children and young people, some of which police say may meet the offence of distributing child or youth sexual abuse material, alongside threats of violence and calls to self-harm; students and parents reported it and police are investigating (September 2026)","summary":"The Oldenburg-Stadt police inspectorate said on 22 September 2026 that in the preceding days numerous messages had been sent through one or more student accounts on the email servers of Oldenburg schools. The messages contained, among other things, deepfakes (manipulated depictions of children and young people); on an initial assessment some of these could constitute the offence of distributing child or youth sexual abuse material, and some messages contained threats of violence and calls for recipients to harm themselves. According to dpa, students and parents reported the incidents to the police, and dpa, reporting a police spokesman, describes the images as made with artificial intelligence (the written police statement calls them deepfakes, manipulated depictions, without naming AI). Investigators are examining whether unknown persons gained unauthorised access to the accounts; first digital traces were secured and the police are working with the affected schools. RND reports that the accounts were on the IServ school platform, whose provider said it had no access to the messages and believed the incident was limited to Oldenburg. The exact number of schools (the police refer to 'the affected schools', plural), messages, depicted children and recipients, and who created the images, are not reported.","incidentDate":"2026-09-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-09-22","aiSystem":"Unidentified AI image-manipulation tool used to produce deepfake images of children and young people; the tool and its operator are not reported. The messages were sent through student accounts on the IServ school platform (RND).","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the Oldenburg police, AI-made deepfakes of children and young people, some possibly constituting child or youth sexual abuse material, were sent to students through school email accounts together with threats of violence and calls to self-harm; students and parents reported the incidents (police statement; dpa).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"unquantified","affectedCountEvidence":"The police speak of 'zahlreiche Nachrichten' (numerous messages) and depictions of children and young people but give no number of depicted children, recipients or schools; a count of messages is not a count of people. Unquantified with zero placeholders.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"DE-NI","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/68440/6356847","primarySourceLabel":"Polizeiinspektion Oldenburg-Stadt (POL-OL) on Presseportal, 22 September 2026: Manipulierte Bilder über Schüleraccounts versandt - Polizei ermittelt","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-27T03:39:47.296658+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:47.498823+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","csam","school","minors","germany","niedersachsen","school-email","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2026-bhopal-ai-images-blackmail-suicide","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'A 17-year-old Class 11 student allegedly died by suicide at her house in Bhopal's Aishbagh area on Thursday night'; 'The girl was found hanging inside her room after she allegedly sent her younger sister outside on some pretext. Family members rushed her down and attempted to save her, but she already died by then. Her body was sent for post-mortem examination on Friday.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'भोपाल के ऐशबाग इलाके में 11वीं कक्षा की 17 वर्षीय छात्रा ने गुरुवार रात घर में फांसी लगाकर आत्महत्या कर ली'; 'उसने छोटी बहन को सामान लेने के बहाने बाहर भेजा। इसी दौरान उसने कमरे में दुपट्टे का फंदा बनाकर फांसी लगा ली'; 'पोस्टमॉर्टम के बाद शुक्रवार दोपहर परिजन शव लेकर सीधे ऐशबाग थाने पहुंचे'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"On Thursday night, 14 May 2026, a 17-year-old Class 11 student was found hanging in her room at the family home in Bhopal's Aishbagh area after sending her younger sister outside on a pretext; relatives brought her down but she had died; the body was sent for post-mortem on Friday.","causal_attribution":"Death and circumstances reported by two outlets from the family and police; Thursday before the Friday post-mortem of 15 May is 14 May 2026."},{"id":"c2","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'family members accusing two youths of harassing and blackmailing her using morphed obscene photographs allegedly created with the help of artificial intelligence tools'; 'two youths from the Chhola area were threatening to circulate edited obscene images prepared using photographs taken from her social media accounts'; 'the accused allegedly were stalking the girl while she travelled to and from school and were pressuring her to meet them'; 'the girl never personally interacted with the youths and that the images were digitally manipulated using AI tools'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'चाचा के मुताबिक, आरोपियों ने सोशल मीडिया से छात्रा की तस्वीरें लेकर एआई की मदद से अश्लील फोटो तैयार किए थे। इन्हें वायरल करने और बदनाम करने की धमकी देकर वे छात्रा पर दबाव बनाते थे'; 'छात्रा की आरोपियों से कभी सीधी मुलाकात तक नहीं हुई थी'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The family alleged that two young men harassed her for weeks, stalked her to and from school, pressured her to meet them and threatened to circulate obscene images made from her social-media photographs with AI tools, and said she had never met them in person.","causal_attribution":"The family's allegations as reported by two outlets; not confirmed by police at the time of reporting."},{"id":"c3","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'As of now a case of unnatural death has been registered and based on the statement of kin and the evidence further course of action will be decided'; 'Aishbagh police station in-charge Sandeep Pawar told TOI. Police said no suicide note was recovered from the spot.'; 'relatives, who gathered at Aishbagh police station on Friday, demanding strict action against the accused'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'ऐशबाग टीआई संदीप पवार ने बताया कि मौके से कोई सुसाइड नोट नहीं मिला है। घरवालों के बयान दर्ज किए जा रहे हैं, जिसके आधार पर आगे की कार्रवाई तय होगी'; 'परिजनों ने शुक्रवार को ऐशबाग थाने का घेराव किया'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Aishbagh police registered an unnatural-death case; the station in-charge said no suicide note was recovered, that the family's statements were being recorded (Dainik Bhaskar) or yet to be recorded (Times of India) and that further action would be decided on the statements and evidence; relatives protested at the police station after the post-mortem demanding action against the accused.","causal_attribution":"Police statements to both outlets."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'चाचा के मुताबिक, आरोपियों ने सोशल मीडिया से छात्रा की तस्वीरें लेकर एआई की मदद से अश्लील फोटो तैयार किए थे'; 'परिवार का दावा है कि आरोपियों ने छात्रा के पिता से भी बदसलूकी की थी, लेकिन बदनामी के डर से पहले पुलिस में शिकायत नहीं की गई'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'The uncle claimed that the student had informed her parents about the harassment earlier'; 'Family members had reportedly tried to reason with the accused, but they allegedly misbehaved with the girl's father as well'; 'One of them lives in the Chhola area, while the other is from the victim's neighbourhood'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'two youths from the Chhola area were threatening to circulate edited obscene images'","relation":"context","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Her uncle told Dainik Bhaskar that one accused lives in the Chhola area and the other in her neighbourhood (the Times of India describes both as from Chhola), that she had told her parents about the harassment, that the men misbehaved with her father when the family tried to reason with them, and that the family had not complained earlier for fear of defamation.","causal_attribution":"Family allegations carried by Dainik Bhaskar only; the Times of India differs on the accused's localities."}],"effects":[{"label":"a 17-year-old died by hanging after, her family says, weeks of stalking and blackmail with obscene images made from her photographs with AI tools","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"threats to circulate AI-made obscene images, stalking and pressure to meet, as alleged by the family","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhopal/class-11-girl-dies-by-suicide-after-harassment-blackmail-by-2-youth-using-ai-images/articleshow/131126861.cms","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live in English on 2026-09-21 (Times of India, Bhopal, published 16 May 2026 00:35 IST, bylined). Own reporting: family allegations and the Aishbagh station in-charge quoted directly.","independence_group":"toi"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.bhaskar.com/g/local/mp/bhopal/news/bhopal-11th-student-suicide-blackmail-threat-137941035.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"hi","translation_note":"Read live in Hindi on 2026-09-21 (Dainik Bhaskar, Bhopal, published 15 May 2026 14:22 IST, updated 18:13). Own reporting quoting the uncle and the station in-charge. Translated by the reviewer.","independence_group":"dainik-bhaskar"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/local/mp/bhopal/news/bhopal-youths-blackmail-student-suicide-protest-police-station-137942433.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live in English on 2026-09-21 (Dainik Bhaskar English, published 15 May 2026 17:18 IST). English version of the same Bhaskar reporting; grouped with s2.","independence_group":"dainik-bhaskar"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.ibc24.in/videos/bhopal-student-suicide-news-11th-grade-student-commits-suicide-by-hanging-troubled-by-blackmailing-she-committed-suicide-3596570.html","kind":"news_report","access":"unavailable","language":null,"translation_note":"IBC24 video page cited by the historical record; answered HTTP 403 on 2026-09-21 and the Internet Archive CDX service was offline. Not relied on.","independence_group":"ibc24"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life","privacy","justice","education"],"unknowns":["Whether the images were in fact made with AI tools: no police, forensic or platform confirmation was reported.","Bhaskar English also reports the family saying the accused possessed AI-generated obscene photos and videos of her; no other source mentions videos.","Whether the accused were identified, questioned or arrested, and whether an FIR was registered against them after the family's statements.","The AI tool used and where the images were sent or posted.","No later coverage of the investigation was found on 2026-09-21."],"geography":{"basis":"Death at the family home in the Aishbagh area of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh; case registered at Aishbagh police station (Times of India; Dainik Bhaskar). No court proceeding reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["IN"],"affected_person_countries":["IN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Restored under the 2026-09-15 charter as an image-based abuse case involving a minor's death. Three bodies read across two independent reporting chains (Times of India; Dainik Bhaskar Hindi and English), both confirming the death through the station in-charge and both reporting the family's allegation of AI-made images, which meets the two-independent-sources rule for the death and the reported AI connection; the AI use and the causal link remain the family's allegations. The girl, her family and the accused are not named in this record.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-21"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The family, including the girl's uncle, told the Times of India and Dainik Bhaskar that the two accused made obscene images from her social-media photographs using AI tools and threatened to circulate them. No police statement, seized image or forensic finding confirming AI use was reported; the police said the family's statements were still being recorded. The artifacts depicted the girl; no AI system interacted with her.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh: a 17-year-old Class 11 student died by hanging at home on 14 May 2026; her family told police that two young men had stalked her and blackmailed her with obscene images made from her social-media photographs with AI tools","summary":"On the night of Thursday 14 May 2026 a 17-year-old Class 11 student was found hanging in her room at the family home in Bhopal's Aishbagh area after sending her younger sister out on a pretext; relatives brought her down but she had died. Her family told the Times of India and Dainik Bhaskar that two young men (both from the Chhola area according to the Times of India; one from Chhola and one from her neighbourhood according to Dainik Bhaskar) had harassed her for weeks, stalked her to and from school, pressured her to meet them, and threatened to circulate obscene images of her that they had made with AI tools from photographs taken from her social-media accounts; the family said she had never met them in person; they also told Dainik Bhaskar that she had told her parents, that the men had misbehaved with her father when the family tried to reason with them, and that fear of social defamation had kept them from going to the police earlier. The Aishbagh police station in-charge said an unnatural-death case had been registered, no suicide note was found, the family's statements were being recorded and further action would follow; investigators were expected to examine her phone and social-media accounts. After the post-mortem on 15 May relatives took the body to the police station and demanded action against the accused. No arrest or later development was found in this review.","incidentDate":"2026-05-14","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-05-15","aiSystem":"AI image-manipulation tools, not named in any inspected report; AI use is the family's allegation","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["death","psychological_distress","exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A 17-year-old died by hanging after, according to her family, weeks of stalking and blackmail with obscene images made from her photographs with AI tools; the family attributes her death to that harassment. Police registered an unnatural-death case and said the cause could not yet be confirmed. Causation is the family's allegation.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One depicted person, the girl who died (all inspected reports). Her family members are not counted; the two accused are alleged perpetrators. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"IN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhopal/class-11-girl-dies-by-suicide-after-harassment-blackmail-by-2-youth-using-ai-images/articleshow/131126861.cms","primarySourceLabel":"The Times of India (Bhopal), 16 May 2026: Class 11 girl dies by suicide after harassment, blackmail by 2 youth using AI images","firstPublishedAt":"2026-06-15T06:54:55.51261+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:28.617079+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","ai-generated-imagery","ncii","blackmail","stalking","minor","suicide","death","india","madhya-pradesh","bhopal","depicted","image-based-abuse"]}]}