{"id":1022283,"date":"2026-07-20T09:04:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T03:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022283"},"modified":"2026-07-20T09:42:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:12:27","slug":"ai-deepfake-videos-used-to-extort-%e2%82%b997-lakh-from-patna-hotel-owner-3-booked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/20\/ai-deepfake-videos-used-to-extort-%e2%82%b997-lakh-from-patna-hotel-owner-3-booked\/","title":{"rendered":"AI deepfake videos used to extort \u20b997 lakh from Patna hotel owner; 3 Booked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hotel owner from Patna was allegedly blackmailed using AI-generated deepfake obscene videos and forced to pay \u20b997 lakh to the accused. Police have registered an FIR against three people, including a woman, in connection with the case. <\/p>\n<p>According to police, the victim was threatened with the circulation of the fabricated videos and false criminal cases unless he paid \u20b91 crore. The hotel owner allegedly paid \u20b997 lakh in four instalments at different locations in Muzaffarpur, Sitamarhi and Patna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hotel owner from Patna was allegedly blackmailed using AI-generated deepfake obscene videos and forced to pay \u20b997 lakh to the accused. Police have registered an FIR against three people, including a woman, in connection with the case. According to police, the victim was threatened with the circulation of the fabricated videos and false criminal cases unless he paid \u20b91 crore. The hotel owner allegedly paid \u20b997 lakh in four instalments at different locations in Muzaffarpur, Sitamarhi and Patna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022297,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022283\/revisions\/1022297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}