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Hive Box facial-recognition delivery lockers bypassed with printed photos

Hive Box Facial-Recognition Locks

Facial recognition locks on delivery lockers were successfully bypassed by children using a printed photo of the recipient's face. The demonstration highlighted vulnerabilities to presentation attacks.

first report
23 Dec 2022
last update
23 Dec 2022

Timeline · 2

  1. 23 Dec 2022AVID-2022-V012: Facial-recognition locks by Hive Box, an express delivery locker company in China, were easily opened by a group of fourth-graders in a science-club demo using only a printed photo of the intended recipient’s face, leaving …
  2. 23 Dec 2022Incident 223: Hive Box Facial-Recognition Locks Hacked by Fourth Graders Using Intended Recipient's Facial Photo

Sources · 2

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Classification

AI role
Attack on AI
categories
Adversarial evasion
severity
1 · Research / proof of concept
targets
Enterprise deployment
owasp llm top 10
no entry for these categories
dates
happened 23 Dec 2022 · first reported 23 Dec 2022
origin
AVID
record
confidence 0.90 · created 2026-10-18 06:56Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:56Z

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# Hive Box facial-recognition delivery lockers bypassed with printed photos

https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/hive-box-facial-recognition-delivery-lockers-bypassed-with-p · AIR-2022-0032 · closed 2023-01-06

- Lane: Research
- Severity: 1 (Research / proof of concept)
- Fix status: Fix status unknown
- First reported: 2022-12-23
- AI role: Attack on AI
- Products: Hive Box Facial-Recognition Locks

## Summary

Facial recognition locks on delivery lockers were successfully bypassed by children using a printed photo of the recipient's face. The demonstration highlighted vulnerabilities to presentation attacks.

## What to do

No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory.

## Latest updates

- 2022-12-23: Incident 223: Hive Box Facial-Recognition Locks Hacked by Fourth Graders Using Intended Recipient's Facial Photo (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/223)
- 2022-12-23: AVID-2022-V012: Facial-recognition locks by Hive Box, an express delivery locker company in China, were easily opened by a group of fourth-graders in a science-club demo using only a printed photo of the intended recipient’s face, leaving … (https://github.com/avidml/avid-db/blob/main/vulnerabilities/2022/AVID-2022-V012.json)

## Sources

- 2022-12-23 AVID: AVID-2022-V012: Facial-recognition locks by Hive Box, an express delivery locker company in China, were easily opened by a group of fourth-graders in a science-club demo using only a printed photo of the intended recipient’s face, leaving contents vulnerable to theft. https://github.com/avidml/avid-db/blob/main/vulnerabilities/2022/AVID-2022-V012.json
- 2022-12-23 AI Incident Database: Incident 223: Hive Box Facial-Recognition Locks Hacked by Fourth Graders Using Intended Recipient's Facial Photo https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/223

Verify against the vendor's advisory before changing production. Data CC BY-SA 4.0, https://gcdradar.vercel.app.

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