From Cybercrime Wire:
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 Oct. 18. The prosecutor is seeking a seven-year prison sentence for the defendant, Aleksanteri Kivimäki, who was formerly identified as Julius Kivimäki. 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. After stealing the records, Kivimäki initially sought to extort more than €360,000 (£312,000) in bitcoin from Vastaamo in exchange for not leaking the records.
The Full story is from The Guardian, and its titled Man accused of Finland psychotherapy hack charged with 21,000 counts of extortion.
The article goes on to talk about the arrest, and other very interesting stats.
One sentence should sum it all up.
Kivimäki was also charged with 9,598 counts of dissemination of information infringing on personal privacy.
My question is “Why 7 years?” This is stealing data and trying to sell it.
This is data on therapy sessions that are supposed to be confidential so the patient can get treated for whatever the session is to treat.
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