William Hamish Yeates, 19, the first person charged under Australia's new deepfake laws, pleaded guilty in the Adelaide Magistrates Court to two counts of creating or altering sexual material without consent and two of using a carriage service in a harassing or offensive way; the remaining charges of an initial 20 were withdrawn. He is remanded until District Court sentencing in May.
The Foreign Press Association accused the Israeli military of using an AI-fabricated image, posted on X on 28 March, to brand Al-Manar correspondent Ali Shuaib, killed in an Israeli strike that day, a Hezbollah operative. Spokesman Nadav Shoshani later conceded the picture was "edited", but the association said it should never have been published.
Italy's Garante privacy authority declared unlawful the processing of passengers' biometric data by FaceBoarding, the facial recognition system SEA used for security and gate access at Milan's Linate airport, finding it breaches the GDPR because the data are stored centrally on SEA's servers, denying passengers exclusive control; the authority had provisionally limited the system in September 2025.
Facebook pages such as Swimming Secrets and Tennis Triumph, managed by administrators in Vietnam, posed as sports fan accounts while linking to ad-laden websites of AI-generated articles mixing news with fabrications about Australian politics, including a false claim that Pauline Hanson launched a US$12 million lawsuit against Labor, AFP found; Meta removed 13 pages in March.
Crypto wallet provider Zerion says attackers stole approximately $100,000 from internal company wallets, not user funds, after compromising employee sessions, credentials and private keys through AI-assisted social engineering; the attack has been linked to a North Korea-affiliated group. No smart contract flaw was involved, and Zerion temporarily disabled parts of its web app while investigating.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
Canada's Veterans Review and Appeal Board found that a nurse practitioner's medical opinion supporting an applicant's keratoconus claim was generated with AI, citing a Veterans Affairs Canada eye-conditions guideline that does not exist and two journal articles the panel could not find anywhere. Deeming the opinion not credible, the board denied entitlement, noting an apparent breach of nursing standards.
