Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“A notorious hacker who was one of Europe’s most wanted criminals has been jailed for blackmailing 33,000 therapy patients with their stolen session notes. Julius Kivimaki’s imprisonment brings to an end an 11-year cyber-crime spree that started when he rose to prominence in a network of anarchic teenage hacking gangs at the age of just 13. Tiina was cooling off after the customary Finnish Saturday night sauna when her phone pinged. It was an email from an anonymous sender who somehow had her name, social security number and other private details. ‘At first I was struck by how polite it was and how nice the tone was,’ she recalls. ‘Dear Mrs Parikka’ the sender wrote, before outlining that they had obtained her private information from a psychotherapy centre where she was a patient.” (05/04/24)