WeChat Pay's Facial Recognition Security Evaded by Scammers Using Victims’ Social Media Content
Date: 2020-07-01
Affected: Wechat, Wechat Pay
Attack vector: privacy-violation
Category: real-world
Severity: High

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #224: WeChat Pay's Facial Recognition Security Evaded by Scammers Using Victims’ Social Media Content. Alleged deployer/developer: Wechat, Wechat Pay. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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