Hacker convicted of extorting 20,000 psychotherapy victims walks free during appeal

The report covers the Vastaamo breach—an incident in which patient psychotherapy records were stolen in 2018, later made public and used for extortion beginning in 2020, affecting over 24,000 victims; it summarizes the prosecution of Aleksanteri Kivimäki (convicted but appealing), references forensic evidence tying server logs and bitcoin transactions to the case, and notes the ongoing trial and societal impact in Finland.