Teen Uses AI-Generated Program to Breach Kaikatsu Frontier
AI-enabled attack3 Confirmed exploitationAI-assisted intrusion
A teenager allegedly used a conversational AI tool to generate a program that breached a server and leaked customer data. The cyberattack disrupted operations and exposed millions of records.
Details
- type
- AI-enabled attackAttackers used AI as a meaningful part of a cyberattack against someone else.
- categories
- AI-assisted intrusionThreat actors using AI tooling in reconnaissance, exploitation, lateral movement or operations.
- AI-assisted intrusion
- owasp llm top 10
- no entry for these categories
- mitre atlas
- no technique for these categoriesBoth rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
- severity
- 3 · Confirmed exploitationUsed against real targets; limited or unclear impact.
- targets
- Enterprise deployment
- products
- Kaikatsu Frontier server
- incident date
- 18 Jan 2025
- first reported
- 18 Jan 2025
- origin
- AI Incident DatabaseDerived from the AI Incident Database (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- classifier confidence
- 0.90 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
- tags
- ai-assisted-intrusion · data-leak
- record
- created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z · json
Sources · 1
- 2025-01-18Japanese Teen Allegedly Uses AI-Generated Program to Breach Kaikatsu Frontier and Leak Data of 7.3 Million CustomersAI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1295
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