{"id":30692,"date":"2020-10-26T11:08:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T09:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=30692"},"modified":"2025-08-27T23:35:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T20:35:24","slug":"hackers-demanded-e450000-in-btc-from-psychotherapy-centre-for-clients-personal-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/hackers-demanded-e450000-in-btc-from-psychotherapy-centre-for-clients-personal-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers demanded \u20ac450,000 in BTC from psychotherapy centre for clients&#8217; personal data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Vastaamo psychotherapy centre in Finland was hacked. Hackers exploited vulnerabilities in the system to gain access to the centre&#8217;s database of thousands of clients and demanded a ransom of \u20ac450,000 in BTC, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreigner.fi\/articulo\/national\/scandal-over-the-hijack-and-and-publication-of-private-mental-health-data\/20201023121903008599.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Foreigner.fi<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The perpetrators threatened to publish the stolen data if the ransom was not paid. They have already begun carrying out the threats \u2014 hackers have published the personal data of at least 300 people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The published information included the patient&#8217;s name, phone number, email address, residential address, and the content of therapy sessions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yle.fi\/uutiset\/osasto\/news\/psychotherapy_centre_data_breach_victims_receive_personalised_extortion_emails\/11612230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that hackers offered to delete individual patients&#8217; data for a ransom of up to \u20ac540 in BTC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier this year, one of the largest hospital networks in the US <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ransomware-attack-hits-one-of-the-largest-hospital-networks-in-the-united-states\">became a victim of<\/a> ransomware.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vastaamo psychotherapy centre in Finland was hacked. Hackers exploited vulnerabilities in the system to gain access to the centre&#8217;s database of thousands of clients and demanded a ransom of \u20ac450,000 in BTC, according to Foreigner.fi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154],"class_list":["post-30692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30694,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30692\/revisions\/30694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}