Security News > 2022 > October > Psychotherapy extortion suspect: arrest warrant issued

That's how the data breach saga apparently unfolded at an infamous Finnish heathcare provider, now bankrupt, called Psychotherapy Centre Vastaamo.

Early in October 2022, the Helsinki Times reported that the former CEO of Psychotherapy Centre Vastaamo, Ville Tapio, will himself face charges over what it described as a "Data protection offence information security vulnerabilities that resulted in a leak of sensitive information on thousands of patients".

Ville Tapio, like Sullivan, seems to have decided that he could get away with hiding the breach from the authorities until it couldn't be denied any more because the extortion demands gave it away.

With the alleged extortionist himself now in the spotlight of European law enforcement following an arrest warrant issued in Finland.

A European arrest warrant has been issued against the suspect.

As this case suggests, prompt disclosure would at least have prevented tens of thousands of vulnerable people finding out about the breach from extortion demands made directly to them and their families.

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