Man accused of Finland psychotherapy hack charged with 21,000 counts of extortion

Sibbo , 8 months ago

I really can’t imagine they would really find the person. Like how are they going to prove that he did anything?

thepianistfroggollum , 8 months ago

If they seized his computers, I’m assuming logs and history.

MentalEdge , 8 months ago

Have you heard of this thing called detective work?

Sibbo , 8 months ago

Yeah, but if they were good enough to hack the thing, shouldn’t they be good enough to use Tor etc?

RubberElectrons , 8 months ago

Fuck this dude.

autotldr Bot , 8 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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Prosecutors in Finland have charged a hacker, accused of the theft of tens of thousands of records from psychotherapy patients, with more than 21,000 counts of extortion.

“The suspect is held on remand and has denied being guilty of the offences,” the national prosecution authority said in a statement on Wednesday.

In the 2018 breach of the Finnish firm Vastaamo, which oversaw dozens of psychotherapy centres throughout the Nordic nation, the private treatment records of tens of thousands of patients were stolen.

When Vastaamo refused to pay, Kivimäki started leaking the records as a means of putting pressure on the company.

According to the prosecution, Kivimäki also sent extortion letters to patients demanding sums ranging from €200 to €500 to prevent the disclosure of records of their therapy sessions.

Kivimäki has previously been convicted on various charges of cybercrime, fraud and money laundering, as well as 50,700 data breaches carried out in conjunction with a hacker group in more than a hundred countries.

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