J PREP: Saito Juku staff email account accessed
At J Institute Inc. (renamed J PREP Inc. in March 2026), a third party accessed one staff member's internal system account from about 20:55 on 4 July to 16:30 on 5 July 2024, and about 20,000 sent and received emails may have been stolen. Suspicious phishing emails were sent from the account on 5 July, and it was locked. Data includes names, gender, age, grade, school, email addresses and some grades of some J PREP Saito Juku students, plus names and email addresses of people who exchanged email with the staff member.
Disclosed
2024-09-27
Organizations involved
1
Leaked or at risk
Unknown
Downtime
Unknown
Timeline
- Started 2024-07-04
- Detected 2024-07-05
- Disclosed 2024-09-27
- 85 days
Attack or cause
- Method
- [Credential abuse]
- Impact
- [Data leak]
- Entry point
- Stolen credentials
Data exposed or at risk
Organizations involved
[Breached][Major]Tokyo, ShibuyaEducation and learning support
J PREP Inc.
Sources
- [1][Official]不正アクセスによる情報漏えいに関するお詫びとお知らせJ Institute Inc. · 2024-09-27
- [2][Official]【社名変更のお知らせ】株式会社 J Institute、「J PREP 株式会社」へ商号変更。サービス名の統一により、さらなる指導品質のさらなる向上と事業の拡充を図るJ PREP Inc. · 2026-03-02