Breach of the Week: Stop looking at my Vastaamo

Published: Jan. 5, 2021, 10 a.m.

Geez, I guess nothing is off limits.  Vastaamo was first breached in 2018, but this...just...keeps...going. Vastaamo has been requested by attackers to pay half a million USD in Bitcoin. But to make it worse employees and patients are also targets of extortion.

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Other places to grab information on this BOTW:

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2020/10/vastaamo-psychotherapy-data-breach-sees-the-most-vulnerable-victims-extorted/

https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/data-breach/vastaamo-breach-is-blackmailing-individual-customers-the-next-extortion-trend/

https://threatpost.com/vastaamo-hackers-blackmailing-therapy-patients/160536/