A Finnish psychotherapy centre was hit by hackers who stole therapy session notes – before threatening patients of the clinic with ransom demands amid selective dark web leaks of stolen material.
"Psychotherapy Center Vastaamo has been the victim of data breaches and blackmail," said the Helsinki-based clinical chain late last week (in Finnish), adding: "In recent days, the blackmailer has published sections of the information he obtained during the hacking. Now the blackmailer has begun to approach the victims of the breach with blackmail letters demanding a ransom."
Vastaamo went public about the hack last week after the details of around 300 customers were published on a Tor website, according to infosec firm Bitdefender's corporate blog.
Company chairman Tuomas Kahri told local newspaper Helsingin Sanomat (
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