Europe’s notorious hacker Julius Kivimäki has finally been jailed for blackmailing 33,000 therapy patients with stolen notes, concluding an 11-year cyber-crime spree, bringing closure to a high-profile case that rocked Finland.
Aleksanteri Kivimäki, formerly known by the first name Julius, was convicted on April 30 by a court in Finland of all charges relating to the hack of Vastaamo, a Helsinki-based private psychotherapy center, that was made public in 2020 when the digital miscreant began to extort individual patients by threatening to publish their stolen information online, The Record reported last week.
The 26-year-old cyber criminal was consequently found guilty of more than 9,200 counts of disseminating information infringing people’s private lives, more than 20,000 counts of attempted blackmail, and 20 counts of blackmail.
