Aleksanteri Kivimäki, known as 'Zeekill', has been sentenced to six years and three months in prison for blackmailing psychotherapy patients after breaching a clinic's IT system, demanding ransoms of €200 ($213) or €500 ($534) and posting sensitive information online. Found guilty of thousands of counts of dissemination of private information and attempted blackmail, his actions led to a significant increase in Finland's crime rate. Kivimäki was arrested in France after a warrant was issued in 2022, with evidence linking him to the crime via a data center he co-owned
The court's decision was supported by his online activity under a pseudonym, showcasing a strong connection to the extortion incidents. https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/hacker-sentenced-after-years-of-extorting-psychotherapy-patients