18-Year-Old Arrested over Cyberattack on Japanese Internet Cafe Operator

Source: nippon.com

An 18-year-old has been arrested for his suspected involvement in a cyberattack on the operator of the Kaikatsu Club internet cafe chain, according to investigative sources. The Metropolitan Police Department’s cybercrime countermeasure division arrested the company employee from Tokyo’s Katsushika Ward, who was in the second year of high school at the time of the incident, on suspicion of fraudulent obstruction of business and violation of the law against unauthorized computer access. In the cyberattack on the internet cafe chain operator Kaikatsu Frontier Inc., a computer program that a high school boy from the western Japan city of Osaka developed using the ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot was used. The boy was arrested last December and is undergoing a juvenile court hearing. Full Story