Japanese Teen Allegedly Uses AI-Generated Program to Breach Kaikatsu Frontier and Leak Data of 7.3 Million Customers
January 18, 2025
A 17-year-old boy in Osaka was reportedly served an arrest warrant for allegedly breaching Kaikatsu Frontier's server using a program purportedly generated with a conversational AI tool. The January cyberattack may have exposed personal data of 7.3 million customers and disrupted business operations. Police say the suspect concealed malicious intent when prompting the AI. He was previously arrested for unrelated credit card fraud.
- Alleged deployer
- unnamed-17-year-old-boy-from-osaka
- Alleged developer
- unknown-generative-ai-developers
- Alleged harmed parties
- kaikatsu-frontier, kaikatsu-frontier-customers
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1295
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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