A company lost $25 million after an employee was tricked by deepfakes of his coworkers on a video call: police

Scammers made off with about $25 million after they used deepfake technology to trick an employee at the Hong Kong branch of a multinational company.

Employee attended a video call with deepfakes of the firm's UK -based CFO and other colleagues.

The employee transferred HK$200 million , or $25.6 million , to various Hong Kong bank accounts across 15 transfers.

Investigations are ongoing, although no arrests have been made.