A bank leaked full customer data after one fake government email — AI lowers the cost of trust-chain attacks
rickasaurus · x · 2026-09-13
NickADobos shared a striking incident: a bank leaked full customer data because someone emailed them pretending to be the government. The poster's bigger point: if AI helps you compromise a government email account, you effectively gain 'legal root access' to every business and every citizen's information in the country — official identity sits at the top of the modern trust chain, and AI has slashed the cost of forging it. A vivid example of AI-era social engineering: no technical exploit needed, just breaking the 'official identity' trust anchor.
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