Hackers are blackmailing Vastaamo psychotherapy patients
A company that offers psychotherapy to thousands of patients across Finland says it’s been the victim of a data breach, with the personal information of customers held for ransom. Vastaamo, which sees patients in 20 cities including Helsinki, Joensuu, Jyväskylä, Pori, Turku and Tampere, says “an unknown hostile party” got in touch with them saying they had obtained customer details.
“As a company providing psychotherapy services, the confidentiality of customer information is extremely important to us and the starting point for all our operations. We deeply regret the leak due to the data breach” says Tuomas Kahri, Vastaamo’s Chairman of the Board in a statement. “We are constantly developing our information security and data protection, and we will take additional measures when our own investigations and regulatory investigations are completed.”