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[Contained][Severity: Major][Credential abuse]

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

  1. Started 2024-07-04
  2. Detected 2024-07-05
  3. Disclosed 2024-09-27
  4. 85 days

Attack or cause

Method
[Credential abuse]
Impact
[Data leak]
Entry point
Stolen credentials

Data exposed or at risk

[Name][Gender][E-mail address][Education]

Organizations involved

Open in organization search

Sources

  1. [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. [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