A Finnish court on Tuesday jailed a hacker for six years over the country’s biggest hacking case involving the theft of tens of thousands of psychotherapy records.
Aleksanteri Kivimaki was found guilty of “aggravated data breach” and “attempted aggravated extortion” in an unprecedented case where patient data and records for around 33,000 people were compromised in a hack of the Vastaamo psychotherapy centre in 2018.
The Western Uusimaa District Court handed Kivimaki a prison sentence of six years and three months.
With more than 21,000 plaintiffs, the criminal case is “the largest ever in our country”, the court said in a statement, calling the criminal offences “exceptional”.
In 2018, the database of Finnish psychotherapy provider Vastaamo, which had dozens of centres throughout the Nordic nation — before going bankrupt in 2021 — was breached and confidential treatment records for tens of thousands of…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
