{"id":18723,"date":"2026-09-14T21:09:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T21:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=18723"},"modified":"2026-09-14T21:09:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T21:09:05","slug":"finnish-police-alert-europe-over-fugitive-vastaamo-hacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=18723","title":{"rendered":"Finnish Police Alert Europe Over Fugitive Vastaamo Hacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"generic-article\">\n<p class=\"text-muted\">\n                                            <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bankinfosecurity.com\/cybercrime-c-416\" id=\"asset_topic_1_1\">Cybercrime<\/a><br \/>\n                                                    ,<br \/>\n                                                            <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bankinfosecurity.com\/fraud-management-cybercrime-c-409\" id=\"asset_topic_1_2\">Fraud Administration &amp; Cybercrime<\/a><br \/>\n                                                    ,<br \/>\n                                                            <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bankinfosecurity.com\/geo-specific-c-518\" id=\"asset_topic_1_3\">Geo-Particular<\/a>\n                                                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <span class=\"article-sub-title\">Aleksanteri Tomminpoika Kivim\u00e4ki Has Eluded Finnish Authorities for Months<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"article-byline\"><br \/>\n                                                <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bankinfosecurity.com\/authors\/tiffany-wang-i-7880\">Tiffany Wang<\/a>                                                     \u2022<br \/>\n                        <span class=\"text-nowrap\">September 14, 2026<\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cuinfosecurity.com\/finnish-police-alert-europe-over-fugitive-vastaamo-hacker-a-32813#disqus_thread\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ismg-cdn.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/articles\/finnish-police-alert-europe-over-fugitive-vastaamo-hacker-image_large-5-a-32813.jpg\" alt=\"Finnish Police Alert Europe Over Fugitive Vastaamo Hacker\" class=\"img-responsive \"\/><figcaption>Aleksanteri Kivim\u00e4ki in a Finnish courtroom on Feb. 28, 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Europe-wide needed discover has been issued for a infamous Finnish hacker convicted of stealing the psychotherapy information of 33,000 individuals after he went on the run to keep away from serving the rest of his jail sentence.<\/p>\n<p><b>See Additionally:<\/b> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bankinfosecurity.com\/firms-need-to-invest-in-security-as-response-strategy-a-21582?rf=RAM_SeeAlso\">Why Corporations Have to Spend money on Safety as Response Technique<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The It\u00e4-Uudenmaan Police Division in Finland has requested for Aleksanteri Tomminpoika Kivim\u00e4ki, 29, to be arrested if he&#8217;s present in any European Union nation after he has been lacking for months from authorities, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/yle.fi\/a\/74-20246154\">reported<\/a> Finnish public broadcaster Yle.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest warrant expands a Finland-wide discover issued in June when he did not report again to jail. The Helsinki Courtroom of Attraction sentenced him to 6 years and 11 months in jail for hacking psychotherapy heart Vastaamo and publishing affected person knowledge on-line, leading to a minimum of one suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Kivim\u00e4ki&#8217;s lawyer Peter Jaari has misplaced contact with the escapee for the reason that summer season, he instructed Yle. Jaari stated he suspected Kivim\u00e4ki was nonetheless overseas after he left Finland within the fall of final yr, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.is.fi\/kotimaa\/art-2000012274007.html\">reported<\/a> Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat.<\/p>\n<p>Kivim\u00e4ki breached the psychotherapy chain&#8217;s database in 2018 and printed 300 sufferers&#8217; remedy session notes. He later emailed victims demanding 200 euros in cryptocurrency, whereas Vastaamo, which went bankrupt following the assault, obtained a 450,000-euro extortion demand. Prosecutors stated Kivim\u00e4ki&#8217;s checking account confirmed a number of funds made throughout the interval of the felony exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Kivim\u00e4ki was convicted of aggravated knowledge breach, tried aggravated extortion, 20 counts of aggravated extortion, 9,231 counts of aggravated dissemination of data that violates privateness and 20,745 counts of aggravated extortion, stated IS.<\/p>\n<p>The District Courtroom of L\u00e4nsi-Uusimaa initially sentenced Kivim\u00e4ki to 6 years and three months in jail in April 2024. It then ordered his launch a yr in the past after figuring out that he had been held in pretrial detention for too lengthy beneath Finnish regulation and that he might look ahead to the enchantment verdict on parole (see: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bankinfosecurity.com\/finnish-vastaamo-hacker-freed-while-appealing-conviction-a-29442\"><i> Finnish Vastaamo Hacker Freed Whereas Interesting Conviction<\/i><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The enchantment ended up including one other eight months to his sentence, leaving him with a number of months nonetheless to serve. The Finnish embassy to america declined remark.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybercrime , Fraud Administration &amp; Cybercrime , Geo-Particular Aleksanteri Tomminpoika Kivim\u00e4ki Has Eluded Finnish Authorities for Months Tiffany Wang \u2022 September 14, 2026 \u00a0 \u00a0 Aleksanteri Kivim\u00e4ki in a Finnish courtroom on Feb. 28, 2023. A Europe-wide needed discover has been issued for a infamous Finnish hacker convicted of stealing the psychotherapy information of 33,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[1992,232,5309,10550,639,2356,5310],"class_list":["post-18723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-alert","tag-europe","tag-finnish","tag-fugitive","tag-hacker","tag-police","tag-vastaamo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18724,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18723\/revisions\/18724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}