Jenni Raiskio, a lawyer representing the victims, describes in the story that the case is truly historic in Finland, because Finland was not prepared for such a large number of victims.
The most read article of the British broadcasting company BBC on Sunday morning tells Aleksanteri from Kivimäki and psychotherapy center Vastaamo’s data breach.
Kivimäki was sentenced to six years and three months in prison last Tuesday in the district court of Länsi-Uusimaa.
According to the district court, Kivimäki penetrated Vastaamo’s information system, downloaded the patient database from there and later published the information of a total of about 33,000 people.
The District Court accepted all charges of aggravated data breach, attempted aggravated extortion, more than 9,200 aggravated dissemination of information infringing private life and nearly 21,000 aggravated blackmail attempts and 20 aggravated extortion.
Of the victims, 24,000 filed a criminal report. Kivimäki wants to appeal the verdict to the Court of Appeal.
The BBC story goes through Kivimäki’s life from a teenage cybercriminal to “Europe’s most wanted”.
Lawyer representing victims Jenni Raiskio describes in the story that the incident is truly historic in Finland, because Finland was not prepared for such a large number of victims.
– The data breach at the front desk showed that we have to prepare for such large cases. This does not end here, he says in an interview with the BBC.
Also for example Business Insider and ABC News have reported on it.