Finnish police trace crypto to accused blackmailer of 33,000 therapy patients
Finnish prosecutors say a police investigation has linked a number of crypto transactions to the bank account of an alleged blackmailer who threatened to publish therapy notes belonging to more than 30,000 psychotherapy patients. Finnish national Aleksanteri Tomminpoika Kivimäki has pleaded not guilty to the charges of aggravated data breach, 9,600 instances of aggravated sharing of private documents, 21,300 attempts at aggravated blackmail , and 20 counts of aggravated blackmail . He is accused of Hack ing into the database of the Vastaamo psycho therapy center in 2018, blackmail ing its patients , and releasing private documents online in 2020 under the moniker of ‘ransom_man.’ The Vastaamo center was told to pay 40 bitcoin, worth roughly $518,000 at the time of the data breach. One victim who spoke to the BBC claimed he was asked to pay €500 or else his teenage counseling session notes would be published. As reported by Helsingin Sanomat, a police investigation paid bitcoin ...