Hacked US pedestrian crossing signals play voices impersonating prominent business leaders
Pedestrian crossing buttons and signals in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area in the US were hacked to play voices impersonating prominent business leaders. Messages impersonating Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and others were found, and AI-generated voices were used.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Hacking & intrusion
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Impersonating voices played from pedestrian crossing buttons and signals
- Cause / method
- AI-generated audio inserted by hacking pedestrian crossing buttons and signals
- Location
- United States
Timeline
- Signs emerged that pedestrian crossing buttons in Silicon Valley had been hacked to play voices mimicking Musk and Zuckerberg.
- It was reported that Bezos was also among those impersonated by the hacked crossing signals.
- It was reported that the hacked crossings had played AI-generated messages impersonating prominent business leaders.
8 related reports
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- Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons hacked to imitate Musk, Zuckerberg’s voices
- Hackers insert Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s voices into crosswalk signals
- Hacked pedestrian crossings play fake messages from Musk and Zuckerberg
- Hacked crosswalk signals impersonate tech billionaires, including Bezos and Musk
- Pedestrians hear AI-generated messages from billionaires at hacked crosswalks
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