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[Resolved][Severity: Major][Credential abuse][Malware]

CAC: unauthorized access to the Academic Support Navi donation service

An unauthorized program was installed and run on a web server for CAC's Academic Support Navi donation-application service from late December 18 to the evening of December 25, 2025, when CAC detected it and stopped and isolated the service. The first notice was issued on January 5, 2026. Its February investigation inferred resource abuse such as cryptocurrency mining as the main purpose and found no concrete traces of personal or confidential information being read or exfiltrated. Because information was technically accessible, CAC nevertheless made statutory possible-leak reports and notifications. After rebuilding the environment and an external vulnerability assessment, CAC resumed the service on March 23; individual customer application sites may reopen on different dates.

Disclosed

2026-01-05

Organizations involved

1

Leaked or at risk

Unknown

Downtime

Unknown

Timeline

  1. Started 2025-12-18
  2. Detected 2025-12-25
  3. Disclosed 2026-01-05
  4. Resolved 2026-03-23
  5. 95 days

Attack or cause

Method
[Credential abuse][Malware]
Impact
[Service outage]
Entry point
Unknown

Data exposed or at risk

–

Services hit

Organizations involved

Open in organization search

Sources

  1. [1][Official]当グループ会社提供サービス「Academic Support Navi」への不正アクセスに関する調査状況のご報告(第2報)CAC Holdings · 2026-01-13
  2. [2][Official]「Academic Support Navi」への不正アクセスに関する調査結果のご報告(第3報、2月18日更新)CAC · 2026-02-12
  3. [3][Official]「Academic Support Navi」サービス再開のお知らせ(最終報)CAC · 2026-03-23