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Japanese companies are compensating customers after a wave of cyberattacks disrupted internet services, with GMO Internet giving all clients 5,000 yen (28.5 euros) as a goodwill gesture following unauthorized access to its currency trading platform. GMO's stock fell 11 percent Monday after the company received a ransom demand threatening to leak corporate and customer data. The firm refused to pay, is cooperating with police, and has asked the government to deploy cyber defense measures. Park24, operator of the Times car-sharing service, is also paying 3,000 yen per customer after a data breach. Experts say AI is making cybercrime faster, cheaper, and harder to detect by automating tasks like finding software vulnerabilities and launching phishing campaigns. Last week, websites in Japan, Europe, and elsewhere went offline after critical flaws in the PHP programming language triggered millions of hacking attempts. Japan announced Friday it will create an AI team to simulate attacks and expose system weaknesses.