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AI-Powered Sextortion: A Growing Threat Your Workforce Needs to Know About

By Joseph J. Lazzarotti on September 8, 2026
Posted in AI Governance

A family’s ordinary afternoon was shattered when an unknown number added multiple relatives, including a teenager, to a group chat and shared what appeared to be AI-generated explicit images of a family member, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported. The goal was simple: to extort money by threatening to release the images more widely.

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