Aleksanteri Kivimäki's hacking of psychotherapy centre Vastaamo's patient database led to a case with the largest number of victims in Finn

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2024-04-30 12:30:03

Aleksanteri Kivimäki's hacking of psychotherapy centre Vastaamo's patient database led to a case with the largest number of victims in Finnish legal history.

Western Uusimaa District Court has found Aleksanteri Kivimäki guilty on all charges related to the hacking of psychotherapy centre Vastaamo's patient database and sentenced him to 6 years and 3 months in prison.

Kivimäki had faced charges including aggravated data breach, almost 9,600 counts of aggravated invasion of privacy related to the dissemination of information, more than 21,300 counts of attempted aggravated extortion, and 20 counts of aggravated blackmail.

The prosecution in the case had told the court that the 26-year-old Kivimäki hacked into the firm's database, containing the personal information of an estimated 33,000 people, in autumn 2018.

He then attempted to extort money from both the company and its clients about two years later, threatening to spread the sensitive patient data on the dark web if they did not pay up.