Overview

• Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department said Kubo, 32, was re-arrested on suspicion of violating the Unauthorized Computer Access Law.
• He allegedly accessed the Instagram accounts of Naoki Inada and a male professional athlete 17 times between July 2 and Oct. 14, 2024.
• Police say passwords were derived from names or birth dates, indicating a pattern of repeated guessing to take over accounts.
• Kubo has been arrested and indicted three times since May in related cases, and investigators believe at least six victims include entertainers and athletes.
• Inada reported suspicious logins after messages seeking sexual images were sent from his account, and police are warning users against easily guessed passwords.