closedclosed 27 Sep 2017Research1 Research / proof of conceptAI
Security Firm Bypasses Apple Face ID with Crafted Mask
Face ID
Security researchers successfully bypassed Apple Face ID authentication using an engineered physical mask. Apple patched or evaluated the biometric security following the demonstration.
- first report
- 13 Sep 2017
- last update
- 13 Sep 2017
Timeline · 1
- 13 Sep 2017Hackers Break Apple Face ID
Sources · 1
Research and catalogues
- 2017-09-13Hackers Break Apple Face IDAI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/26
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- Research
- AI role
- Attack on AI
- categories
- Adversarial evasion
- severity
- 1 · Research / proof of concept
- targets
- Apple
- owasp llm top 10
- no entry for these categories
- dates
- happened 13 Sep 2017 · first reported 13 Sep 2017
- origin
- AI Incident DatabaseDerived from the AI Incident Database (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- record
- confidence 0.85 · created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z
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# Security Firm Bypasses Apple Face ID with Crafted Mask https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/security-firm-bypasses-apple-face-id-with-crafted-mask · AIR-2017-0056 · closed 2017-09-27 - Lane: Research - Severity: 1 (Research / proof of concept) - Fix status: Fix status unknown - First reported: 2017-09-13 - AI role: Attack on AI - Products: Face ID ## Summary Security researchers successfully bypassed Apple Face ID authentication using an engineered physical mask. Apple patched or evaluated the biometric security following the demonstration. ## What to do No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory. ## Latest updates - 2017-09-13: Hackers Break Apple Face ID (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/26) ## Sources - 2017-09-13 AI Incident Database: Hackers Break Apple Face ID https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/26 Verify against the vendor's advisory before changing production. Data CC BY-SA 4.0, https://gcdradar.vercel.app.
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