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reversibility, downstream exposure count, industry, org size band, denominator, shared model id, upstream incident id, incident evidence, regulatory, or coverage. event.trigger is human_misuse because the source states a scammer deliberately used the tool. event.detection_method is victim because the family noticed. event.incident_class is security_compromise because an attacker caused the system to act. event.agent_involved is false because the tool was used by a person, not acting autonomously. impact.severity is moderate because a stated $15,000 loss falls in the 10k-100k band. context.country is US because the source says every state. context.systemic_exposure is false because the tool is a consumer product used by one scammer, not a shared model correlating loss across deployers. system.tier: not set; no operator named and deployment_context is not a lab's. [aggregated by deepseek-chat, aggregate-2026-09-27.1, 2026-09-29] system.model_name: classified from described behaviour. system.integration_type: classified from described behaviour. system.intended_use: classified from described behaviour. system.developer: no source names the developer. system.autonomy_level: no source states the arrangement. system.deployment_context: no source states where it ran. event.agent_involved: classified from described behaviour. event.detection_method: a source states the affected party noticed it first. event.summary: classified from described behaviour. event.incident_class: a source states an attacker, an injected instruction or a misused credential caused the system to act, or that the system's own boundary (sandbox, permissions, weights, accounts) was breached. context.systemic_exposure: classified from described behaviour. context.denominator_available: no denominator is available for this incident. context.country: classified from described behaviour. [corrected by Srini Iyer, approved 2026-10-22 in the corrections review: citations to sentences about a different event were removed; severity reason did not fit its quote or the record; summary or story described a different event or the article, not this event] event.incident_class: other: people used AI-generated video or voice to impersonate someone in a fraud; no source states that an AI system was breached or acted, so no class's test is met. [corrected by Srini Iyer, approved 2026-10-22 in the corrections review: a judgement inferred by us that no source states was cleared; citations to sentences about a different event were removed; impersonation fraud was reclassed: no AI system was breached]"},"context":{"industry":null,"org_size_band":null,"country":"US","denominator_available":false,"denominator":null,"related_incident_ids":[],"systemic_exposure":null,"shared_model_id":null,"upstream_incident_id":null,"incident_evidence":null,"regulatory":null,"coverage":null},"narrative":{"steps":[{"step":"doing","text":"Scammers used a consumer AI voice cloning tool to copy a few seconds of a family member's public audio, then called relatives posing as that person in a fake emergency. 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