{
 "id": "AIR-2017-0056",
 "slug": "security-firm-bypasses-apple-face-id-with-crafted-mask",
 "title": "Security Firm Bypasses Apple Face ID with Crafted Mask",
 "summary": "Security researchers successfully bypassed Apple Face ID authentication using an engineered physical mask. Apple patched or evaluated the biometric security following the demonstration.",
 "type": "attack_on_ai",
 "categories": [
  "adversarial_evasion"
 ],
 "severity": 1,
 "targets": [
  "Apple"
 ],
 "products": [
  "Face ID"
 ],
 "incident_date": "2017-09-13",
 "incident_date_precision": "day",
 "first_reported": "2017-09-13",
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/26",
   "publisher": "AI Incident Database",
   "title": "Hackers Break Apple Face ID",
   "published_at": "2017-09-13"
  }
 ],
 "source_count": 1,
 "confidence": 0.85,
 "status": "published",
 "origin": "seed_aiid",
 "tags": [
  "face-id",
  "biometric-bypass",
  "adversarial-evasion"
 ],
 "created_at": "2026-10-18T06:33:31.967Z",
 "updated_at": "2026-10-18T06:59:35.797Z"
}