Hackers blackmail vulnerable patients after psychotherapy clinic hack

Hackers blackmail vulnerable patients after psychotherapy clinic hack
 

Confidential Data of Thousands of Finnish Psychotherapy Clinic Patients Has Been Exposed to Hackers after Data Breach.


In Finland, a private psychotherapy clinic became the victim of a data breach about two years ago, but now a threat actor is blackmailing the clinic for ransom. 


The Finnish Psychotherapy Center Vastaamo is a nationwide practice and has over a dozen branches and roughly 40,000 patients, while it also offers contract-based services to several institutions in Finland.


The clinic is under stress as threat actors are also blackmailing many of its patients. Reportedly, thousands of patients could be at risk as the blackmailer claims to have a client database containing confidential data. The data breach occurred in November 2018.


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The clinic revealed details of the incident last Wednesday, stating that the extortionist contacted their three employees in September and asked for 40 bitcoins ($500,000) for not releasing the stolen patient data and forced them to pay the ransom.


Authorities are trying to track down the affected patients who have received emails from hackers threatening to disclose their private data unless they pay them the ransom.

According to the recipients, the extortionist asked for $240 in bitcoin for deleting their records. The email contains the subject line “Answering Office Information” and the recipient’s private ..

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