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The study found 138 women MPs across 22 EU nations had appeared or been mentioned on explicit deepfake websites, compared with nine male MPs. Many women appeared on gateway pages that linked to AI tools generating nude or sexualised images. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office later seized 12 deepfake domains, eight of which ADT had examined. ADT also found records from one seized domain still stored in Google's search index, which could still link names to the material.","tags":[],"date_detected":null,"near_miss":null,"root_cause":null,"root_cause_detail":null,"failure_class_detail":null,"responsible_party":null,"adversarial_actor":null,"input_provenance":null,"time_to_contain":null,"operations_paused":null,"remediation":null,"precursor_events":null,"primary_risk":"RK15","secondary_risks":["RK16"]},"impact":{"direct_loss_usd":null,"remediation_hours":null,"records_exposed":null,"third_parties_affected_count":138,"severity":"major","severity_because":"Test: many third parties (a stated count of two or more affected parties). Fact: 138 women MPs across 22 EU nations appeared or were mentioned on explicit deepfake websites.","harm_class":[],"affected_description":"138 women MPs across 22 EU nations appeared or were mentioned on explicit deepfake websites","protected_class_involved":null,"data_categories_exposed":["names","photos","personal information"],"loss_range_usd":null,"reversibility":null,"downstream_exposure_count":null},"evidence":{"sources":[{"url":"https://www.techtimes.co.uk/eu-women-mps-targeted-explicit-deepfakes-study-1808690","publisher":"www.techtimes.co.uk","date":"2026-09-16","type":"press","title":"Deepfake Porn Targets 138 EU Women Politicians: Taking Down Content Is Not Always Enough - www.techtimes.co.uk","archived_url":null,"attachment":"first_report","independence":"independent"}],"per_field_confidence":{"event.incident_class":"C","event.detection_method":"C","impact.third_parties_affected_count":"C","impact.data_categories_exposed":"C","impact.affected_description":"C","impact.severity":"D","impact.severity_because":"D","event.primary_risk":"D","event.secondary_risks":"D","event.summary":"C","system.autonomy_level":"D","system.deployment_context":"D","event.trigger":"D","context.country":"D","system.developer":"D","event.date_disclosed":"D","context.denominator_available":"D"},"field_citations":{"event.incident_class":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"At the same time, the rest appeared on what researchers called 'gateway' pages—sites featuring their names, photos and other personal information alongside direct links to AI tools designed to generate nude or sexualised images."}],"event.detection_method":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"A total of 138 women MPs across 22 EU nations have appeared or been mentioned on explicit deepfake websites, compared with just nine male MPs found on the same platforms, according to a study by German digital democracy think tank Agora Digitale Transformation (ADT)."}],"impact.third_parties_affected_count":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"A total of 138 women MPs across 22 EU nations have appeared or been mentioned on explicit deepfake websites, compared with just nine male MPs found on the same platforms, according to a study by German digital democracy think tank Agora Digitale Transformation (ADT)."}],"impact.data_categories_exposed":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"At the same time, the rest appeared on what researchers called 'gateway' pages—sites featuring their names, photos and other personal information alongside direct links to AI tools designed to generate nude or sexualised images."}],"impact.affected_description":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"A total of 138 women MPs across 22 EU nations have appeared or been mentioned on explicit deepfake websites, compared with just nine male MPs found on the same platforms, according to a study by German digital democracy think tank Agora Digitale Transformation (ADT)."}],"impact.severity":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"A total of 138 women MPs across 22 EU nations have appeared or been mentioned on explicit deepfake websites, compared with just nine male MPs found on the same platforms, according to a study by German digital democracy think tank Agora Digitale Transformation (ADT)."}],"impact.severity_because":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"A total of 138 women MPs across 22 EU nations have appeared or been mentioned on explicit deepfake websites, compared with just nine male MPs found on the same platforms, according to a study by German digital democracy think tank Agora Digitale Transformation (ADT)."}],"event.summary":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Researchers examined 5,872 politicians serving in national parliaments across all 27 EU nations for the project."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Between 16 and 20 July, researchers searched 160 domains known to host deepfake pornography and other non-consensual sexual material, finding matches on 36 of them."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"A total of 138 women MPs across 22 EU nations have appeared or been mentioned on explicit deepfake websites, compared with just nine male MPs found on the same platforms, according to a study by German digital democracy think tank Agora Digitale Transformation (ADT)."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"At the same time, the rest appeared on what researchers called 'gateway' pages—sites featuring their names, photos and other personal information alongside direct links to AI tools designed to generate nude or sexualised images."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"On Monday, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office seized 12 deepfake website domains."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"More than a month after one deepfake domain was seized, ADT found 47 records from it still stored in Google's search index, although the researchers could not find them through an ordinary Google search."}]},"notes_on_gaps":"The source is a single press report of a think-tank study; it names no AI model, developer, harness or deployer, so no system fields are given. No autonomous agent is described, so agent_involved and failure fields are omitted. No occurrence or detection date is stated for the incident itself; the 16-20 July search and the September 2026 study date are recorded only in the timeline. No control held, failed or was missing in a specific incident is described, so links are empty. The seizure and the EU ban are not organisational remediations, so remediations are empty. Incident_class harmful_output and severity major are my judgements: severity rests on the stated count of 138 affected parties. The 138 figure counts women who appeared or were mentioned; the source says only 38 had live depictions, so the figure is not a count of confirmed hosted material. Responsible party, root cause, adversarial actor and country are not stated and are omitted. Harm class reputational and privacy are drawn from the source's remarks on personal information and reputational harm. The 138 count is quoted as stated and not used to estimate a loss. 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