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incidents/AIR-2019-0005

Hive Box Facial Recognition Locks Bypassed With Printed Photos

Attack on AI1 Research / proof of conceptAdversarial evasion

Facial-recognition lockers were easily bypassed by students using a printed photograph of the intended recipient. The vulnerability left delivery locker contents exposed to theft.

Details

type
Attack on AI
An AI model, agent or AI-powered product was the thing exploited, abused or leaked.
categories
  • Adversarial evasion
    Inputs crafted to make a model misclassify or miss detections (perturbations, evasion of AI-based defences).
owasp llm top 10
no entry for these categories
mitre atlas
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
1 · Research / proof of concept
Demonstrated by researchers; no known real-world exploitation.
targets
Enterprise deployment
products
Hive Box Facial-Recognition Locks
incident date
9 Oct 2019
first reported
9 Oct 2019
origin
AI Incident Database
Derived from the AI Incident Database (CC BY-SA 4.0).
classifier confidence
0.85 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
facial-recognition · spoofing · bypass
record
created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z · json

Sources · 1

  1. 2019-10-09
    Hive Box Facial-Recognition Locks Hacked by Fourth Graders Using Intended Recipient’s Facial Photo
    AI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/223

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