{"id":1019739,"date":"2026-07-09T09:45:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019739"},"modified":"2026-07-09T09:52:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:22:01","slug":"how-chatgpt-helped-a-japanese-teen-hack-46812-bandai-channel-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/09\/how-chatgpt-helped-a-japanese-teen-hack-46812-bandai-channel-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"How ChatGPT helped a Japanese teen hack 46,812 Bandai Channel accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 15-year-old high school student for using ChatGPT to write a program used in a cyberattack on Bandai Namco Filmworks&#8217; Bandai Channel streaming service that disrupted the platform and led to the illegal cancellation of 46,812 user accounts. <\/p>\n<p>According to Japanese media reports, investigators believe the teenager exploited a vulnerability in the anime streaming platform in November 2025 and developed a program with the help of AI that automated unauthorised access to member accounts, leading to a charge of fraudulent obstruction of business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 15-year-old high school student for using ChatGPT to write a program used in a cyberattack on Bandai Namco Filmworks&#8217; Bandai Channel streaming service that disrupted the platform and led to the illegal cancellation of 46,812 user accounts. According to Japanese media reports, investigators believe the teenager exploited a vulnerability in the anime streaming platform in November 2025 and developed a program with the help of AI that automated unauthorised access to member accounts, leading to a charge of fraudulent obstruction of business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019747,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019739\/revisions\/1019747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}