{
 "id": "AIR-2024-0020",
 "slug": "survey-reports-over-half-of-businesses-targeted-by-deepfake",
 "title": "Survey Reports Over Half of Businesses Targeted by Deepfake Scams",
 "summary": "Corporate surveys revealed that a majority of businesses in the US and UK faced deepfake scams impersonating executives. These AI-enabled attacks successfully caused multi-million dollar financial losses.",
 "type": "ai_enabled_attack",
 "categories": [
  "deepfake_fraud"
 ],
 "severity": 4,
 "targets": [
  "enterprise_deployment"
 ],
 "products": [
  "Deepfake Voice and Video tools"
 ],
 "incident_date": "2024-09-03",
 "incident_date_precision": "day",
 "first_reported": "2024-09-03",
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/800",
   "publisher": "AI Incident Database",
   "title": "53% of American and British Businesses Report Attacks by AI-Powered Deepfake Scams in 2024",
   "published_at": "2024-09-03"
  }
 ],
 "source_count": 1,
 "confidence": 0.95,
 "status": "published",
 "origin": "seed_aiid",
 "tags": [
  "deepfake",
  "executive-impersonation",
  "financial-fraud"
 ],
 "created_at": "2026-10-18T06:33:31.967Z",
 "updated_at": "2026-10-18T06:59:35.797Z"
}