Extortion via AI playbook

This playbook has technical guidance for responding to a business email compromise incident. It is not a standalone resource: use it alongside your incident management plan to make sure it works for your school.

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Useful links

• A Beginners Guide to Deepfakes - Safer Schools - Safer Schools
• Safeguarding students: a guide for schools on preventing and responding to AI-generated image exploitation - Safer Schools NI
• Safeguarding alert: sextortion and the rise of AI - Ineqe Safeguarding Group
• A guide for schools on preventing and responding to AI-generated image exploitation - Inege Safeguarding Group
• Sextortion - UK Safer Internet Centre

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Page last reviewed
13 May 2026