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Finland's interior minister summoned an emergency meeting after patient records at a private Finnish psychotherapy center were accessed by hackers

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Tags: privacy, security, finland, hacking, blackmail, politics, vastaamo, data.medical, data breaches, health.mental, therapy.psycho, patients, author.jari tanner, source.associated press
https://apnews.com/article/psychotherapy-cabinets-finland-6b27c895df0abd532a4fb000c9d5d517

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Title
Finland shocked by therapy center hacking, client blackmail
Published
Oct 25 2020
Word count
547 words

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      Well the hacker who posted snippets of the data on Ylilauta (the Finnish equivalent to 4chan) claims they had root:root as the credentials for one of their servers. They might be full of shit,...

      Well the hacker who posted snippets of the data on Ylilauta (the Finnish equivalent to 4chan) claims they had root:root as the credentials for one of their servers. They might be full of shit, though.

      It’s been interesting to follow the coverage of the event in Finnish media. It took a few days for people to comprehend the seriousness of this breach. First it was a news story among others. By Sunday Yle had added a special section on the top of their news page, akin to those used when say, a huge natural disaster occurs.

      In terms of severity, this has to be the biggest data breach in Finnish history, if not globally.

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