Incident #1744
Allegedly AI-Generated Audio Bomb Threat Prompted Evacuations at the Port of Constanța, Romania
Description
A Romanian-language audio bomb threat, assessed by officials as AI-generated, prompted employee evacuations and security searches at the Port of Constanța, Romania. Authorities received two calls using numbers with Ukrainian and Polish prefixes. Officials later said the alert was false. The perpetrators and AI system were not identified.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- synthetic-media-creators
- malicious-actors
- information-manipulation-actors-in-romania
- information-manipulation-actors
- hoax-threat-perpetrators
Alleged Developers
- synthetic-media-generation-technology-developers
- synthetic-audio-generation-technology-developers
Harmed Parties
- public-safety
- port-of-constanta-employees
- maritime-workers
- epistemic-integrity
- ports
Classification
Source
Source Reports(4 total)
Alerta cu bombă din Portul Constanța. Radu Miruță: Amenințare transmisă de pe numere din Ucraina și Polonia, posibil creată cu AI
digi24.ro· Jul 2026
Mesajele trimise la Autoritatea Navală Română, care au dus la evacuări în Portul Constanța: „Mai multe bombe plantate. Nu vei avea timp să le găsești”
hotnews.ro· Jul 2026