JOHOR BAHRU, Feb. 24 -- Authorities have detected and shut down 12 unauthorised TikTok accounts and associated websites that used artificial intelligence (AI) to impersonate a Johor state executive councillor in a bid to harvest personal data from the public.

Johor police chief Datuk Ab Rahaman Arsad said the AI-driven scam accounts and their linked phishing sites have since been taken down by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC).

He said the enforcement action followed a police report lodged last Friday by Khairin-Nisa Ismail, the Johor Women, Family and Community Development Committee chairman and Serom assemblyman.

"Out of the 12 accounts, four were found to have used Khairin-Nisa's facial features and voice...