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FINNISH HACKER IMPRISONED FOR ACCESSING THOUSANDS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY RECORDS AND
DEMANDING RANSOMS

FILE - Exterior view of the offices of Vastaamo psychotherapy centre, in Pasila,
Helsinki, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020. A Finnish court on Tuesday sentenced a
26-year-old man to six years and three months in prison for hacking tens of
thousands of patient records at a private psychotherapy center and seeking
ransom from some patients over the sensitive data. (Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva
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HELSINKI (AP) — A Finnish court on Tuesday sentenced a 26-year-old man to six
years and three months in prison for hacking tens of thousands of patient
records at a private psychotherapy center and seeking ransom from some patients
over the sensitive data.

The case that was initially revealed in October 2020, has caused outrage and
shock in the Nordic nation, with a record number of people — about 24,000 —
filing criminal complaints with police.

In February 2023, French police arrested well-known Finnish hacker Aleksanteri
Kivimäki, who was living under a false identity near Paris and deported him to
Finland. His trial ended last month.

The Länsi-Uusimaa District Court said Kivimäki was guilty of, among other
things, an aggravated data breach, nearly 21,000 aggravated blackmail attempts
and more than 9,200 aggravated disseminations of information infringing private
life.



The court called the crimes “ruthless” and “very damaging” considering the
psychological state of the people involved. According to the charges, Kivimäki
in 2018 hacked into the information system of the Vastaamo psychotherapy center
and downloaded its database of some 33,000 clients.

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Lawyer Jenni Raiskio, who is representing some 1,500 clients, told the Finnish
newspaper Helsingin Sanomat in March that at least a few of the victims died by
suicide due to the sensitive nature of information in the leaked files.



Vastaamo, which was suspected of lax protection of client data and declared
bankruptcy in 2021, had branches throughout the country and operated as a
sub-contractor for Finland’s public health system.

Prosecutors said Kivimäki first demanded that Vastaamo pay him an amount
equivalent to around 370,000 euros ($396,000) in bitcoins in exchange for not
publishing the patient records.

When the center refused, Kivimäki in 2020 began publishing patient information
on the dark web and sent patients messages demanding a ransom of 200 euros or
500 euros. About 20 patients paid, prosecutors said.



Kivimäki denied all the charges. His lawyer said he would likely appeal.
Prosecutors had sought seven years in prison, the maximum for such crimes under
Finnish law.

Kivimäki was first convicted at age 15 after hacking into over 50,000 servers
with software he developed, Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat reported in 2022.

In the United States, he was convicted over hacking cases involving the U.S. Air
Force and Sony Online Entertainment.

The Vastaamo case led the Finnish government to fast-track a legislative change
that allows citizens to change their personal identity codes — a key to
accessing public and private services — in cases of gross data breaches that
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