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Japanese teen arrested over cyberattack that disrupted anime streaming service
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Summary
A 15-year-old Japanese student was arrested for a cyberattack that disrupted an anime streaming service, Bandai Channel. The suspect exploited a vulnerability in the service’s servers and used ChatGPT to automate the fraudulent cancellation of over 46,000 subscriptions. The incident followed a previous cyberattack by the AlphV ransomware group against the parent company’s Asian subsidiaries in 2022.
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