{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-27T07:06:10.116Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"personal-data-theft","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"unknown","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":0,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":1,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":1,"lawsuits":1,"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":"2026-hangzhou-court-orders-two-men-who-used-ai-face-swap-videos-to-defeat-shopping-platform-face-checks-and-take-users-data-to-apologise","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'浙江省杭州市中级人民法院审理了一起案件：两被告利用AI换脸技术破解活体验证，非法窃取、交易公民个人信息'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'杭州市人民检察院就此提起民事公益诉讼'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court heard a civil public-interest suit, brought by the Hangzhou procuratorate, over two men who used AI face swap to defeat liveness verification and illegally take and trade personal information.","causal_attribution":"Existence of the suit as reported; the judgment text was not inspected."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'把上游黑灰产提供的他人身份证照片，通过境外换脸网站，借助AI技术生成仿真活体动态视频，再结合虚拟相机的使用，从而绕过平台活体验证程序，破解登录他人购物平台账号'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'利用AI技术将静态照片合成为动态人脸认证视频，非法登录他人网络账号，窃取收货地址、消费记录等隐私数据并对外出售'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"According to the court as reported, the two used an overseas face-swap website to turn other people's ID-card photos into AI-generated moving videos and, with a virtual-camera app, bypassed a platform's liveness check to log into other people's shopping accounts.","causal_attribution":"The AI-generated face videos are the means by which the accounts were entered, as described by court staff and the court's case summary."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'两被告先后非法登录近30个某购物平台账号，窃取用户收货地址、购物车信息等隐私数据对外流转' ... '利用同款AI换脸技术制作虚假活体视频，违规认证账号20个，并出售牟利2149元'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The prosecution said the two entered nearly 30 accounts on one shopping platform and passed on users' delivery addresses and shopping-cart data, and later used the same AI face-swap technique to make fake liveness videos verifying 20 accounts for sale.","causal_attribution":"Prosecution's account as reported; CCTV also describes a second, non-AI login method and does not split the accounts between methods."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'滥用AI技术伪造活体认证、非法处理海量公民个人信息并窃取倒卖用户数据，不仅侵害了不特定主体的个人信息权益'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The court found that the two had, without permission, abused AI technology to forge liveness verification, processed large amounts of personal information and stolen and resold user data, infringing the personal-information rights of unspecified people.","causal_attribution":"Court's finding as summarised by Chao News."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'被公安机关查获后也立即停止侵权、退回违法所得5857元，且自愿认罪认罚，检察机关综合考量案件情节，依法对二人作出刑事不起诉决定'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"After police caught them, the two stopped, returned 5,857 yuan in illegal gains and admitted the conduct, and prosecutors decided not to charge them criminally.","causal_attribution":"Criminal outcome as reported."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'两被告对自己滥用AI技术侵犯他人个人信息的行为供认不讳，当庭向广大受害群众和社会公众致歉'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'辩称人脸信息是AI自动生成。但法院明确指出，技术的工具属性不改变行为的违法本质'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"In court the two admitted abusing AI to infringe other people's personal information and apologised to the victims and the public; Chao News reports that they also argued the face information was generated automatically by AI, which the court rejected as a defence.","causal_attribution":"Defendants' admission and defence as reported by two outlets; the two passages describe different statements, so the claim stays reported."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'判令二被告公开赔礼道歉，并支付和犯罪所得相当的公益损害赔偿金'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'该笔赔偿金由检察机关专门用于个人信息保护、人脸深度合成技术不当应用的治理等公益事项'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The court ordered the two to apologise publicly and pay public-interest damages equal to their gains, to be used by prosecutors for personal-information protection and the governance of misused face deep synthesis.","causal_attribution":"Outcome as reported; the two outlets give different parts of it."},{"id":"c8","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'今年9月4日，杭州中院公开开庭审理一起涉“AI换脸”个人信息保护公益诉讼案，并当庭作出一审判决'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"A 26 October 2026 Jiemian report, citing an earlier Chao News report, says the court heard the case in open court on 4 September 2026 and gave the first-instance judgment at the hearing.","causal_attribution":"Date of the hearing and judgment as relayed by Jiemian from an uninspected Chao News report."}],"effects":[{"label":"users' accounts entered and private data taken for sale after AI-generated face videos passed a liveness check","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://ipeconomy.cn/mobile/dongtai/11353.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-26 and again on 2026-10-27; English renderings are the agent's own translation. ipeconomy.cn page stating its source as CCTV News, dated 29 Sep 2026, carrying the full report with statements by Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court staff; HTTP 200. The CCTV original was not located.","independence_group":"cctv-news-29-sep-2026"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://tidenews.com.cn/tmh_news.html?id=6aac9d2c108184000144ee79","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-27; English renderings are the agent's own translation. Post by the Hangzhou courts account (杭州法院) on Chao News, published 2026-09-18 10:01 Beijing time, carrying a Democracy and Legal System Times (民主与法制时报) report that summarises three typical online-infringement public-interest cases for the 14-20 September 2026 cybersecurity week; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"hangzhou-courts-chao-news-18-sep-2026"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://m.sohu.com/a/1092939446_313745","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-27; English renderings are the agent's own translation. Sohu copy credited to Jiemian News, published 26 Oct 2026; its date for the hearing cites an earlier Chao News report that was not located; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"jiemian-26-oct-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["When the conduct took place.","How many people were affected; the prosecution's figures count accounts, and some accounts were entered by a non-AI method.","Which shopping platform and which face-swap website were involved.","Whether either side appealed; the judgment text was not inspected.","Whether any affected user suffered a loss beyond the taking and sale of their data."],"geography":{"basis":"The case was decided by the Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court in Zhejiang, China, so CN is the court country. The reports do not name the platform or say where the men operated or where the affected users live, so no event or affected-person country is recorded from the court's seat.","court_countries":["CN"],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): a Chinese court found that two men used AI-generated face videos made from other people's ID photos to defeat a shopping platform's liveness check, enter users' accounts and take their personal data for sale, the men admitted abusing AI in court, and the court ordered an apology and public-interest damages. The record rests on reports of the court case; the people involved are not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-27"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Staff of the Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court told CCTV News that the two men used an overseas face-swap website to turn other people's ID-card photos into AI-generated moving videos that passed a shopping platform's face liveness check, letting them log into other people's accounts; the court found that they had abused AI to forge liveness verification and steal and resell user data, and the men admitted in court that they had abused AI to infringe other people's personal information. The generated videos impersonated the people whose ID photos were used; the reports do not say whether those people held the shopping accounts entered. The face-swap website is not named, and CCTV also describes a second, non-AI login method without saying how many accounts each method reached.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Hangzhou court orders two men who used AI face-swap videos to defeat a shopping platform's face checks and take users' data to apologise and pay, reports say","summary":"Chinese media reports of September and October 2026 describe a civil public-interest suit that the Hangzhou procuratorate brought against two men in the Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court in Zhejiang. According to the court as reported by CCTV News, the two took other people's ID-card photos supplied by an upstream trade in personal data and used an overseas face-swap website to turn them into AI-generated moving videos that nodded, blinked and shook their heads, then fed the videos through a virtual-camera app so that a shopping platform's face liveness check accepted them, letting the men log into other people's accounts. The prosecution said they entered nearly 30 accounts on one shopping platform and took users' delivery addresses and shopping-cart data, which were passed on for sale, and used the same AI technique to verify 20 chat and dating accounts under other people's identities for sale. CCTV also reports a second, non-AI method the men used to enter accounts and does not say how many of the accounts each method reached. After police caught them, the two stopped, returned 5,857 yuan in illegal gains and admitted the conduct, and prosecutors decided not to charge them criminally. In court they admitted abusing AI to infringe other people's personal information and apologised; Chao News reports that they also argued that the face information was generated automatically by AI. The court found that they had abused AI to forge liveness verification and steal and resell user data, and ordered a public apology and public-interest damages equal to their gains. A 26 October report, citing an earlier Chao News report, dates the hearing and first-instance judgment to 4 September 2026.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-18","aiSystem":"AI face-swap website (overseas, not named) used to turn other people's ID-card photos into moving face videos that defeated a shopping platform's liveness check, fed through a virtual-camera app, according to the Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court as reported","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","other_material_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to reports of the Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court case, two men used AI-generated moving videos made from other people's ID photos to pass a shopping platform's face liveness check, entered users' accounts and took delivery addresses and shopping data for sale, and verified chat and dating accounts under other people's identities; the court found the personal-information rights of unspecified people infringed.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"unquantified","affectedCountEvidence":"No reliable count of people. The prosecution's figures are accounts (nearly 30 shopping accounts entered and 20 chat and dating accounts verified), and CCTV says some accounts were entered by a second, non-AI method without giving the split; accounts are not counted as people.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"CN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"lawsuit_filed","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://ipeconomy.cn/mobile/dongtai/11353.html","primarySourceLabel":"ipeconomy.cn (relaying CCTV News), 29 Sep 2026: AI face swap used to bypass platform checks","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T03:05:42.357221+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-27T03:05:42.357221+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-face-swap","liveness-check-bypass","identity-verification","personal-data-theft","public-interest-litigation","court-ruling","china","depicted-or-impersonated"]}]}