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Tokyo Police Arrest 17-Year-Old in Kaikatsu Club App Breach

Investigators allege he used ChatGPT to build a tool that extracted roughly 7.25 million member records.

Overview

  • The Metropolitan Police Department arrested the Osaka high school student on suspicion of unauthorized computer access and fraudulent obstruction of business.
  • Police say he accessed Kaikatsu Frontier’s app server from Jan. 18 to 20 and sent repeated commands that forced some app functions to halt.
  • Investigative sources report he obtained about 7.25 million sets of member data, consistent with Aoki Holdings’ January notice that roughly 7.29 million records might have been compromised.
  • Authorities say he created the extraction program with assistance from ChatGPT, reportedly using prompts to learn bypass techniques and troubleshoot errors.
  • No confirmed misuse of the leaked information has been identified as the inquiry continues, and the teen was previously arrested in November in a separate credit card case.