GUILTY Finland - Cybercrime - Hacker 'zeekill', Aleksanteri Kivimäki, sentenced for data breach, extortion, privacy violations, Helsinki, 26 February 2026

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The Finnish hacker Aleksanteri Tomminpoika Kivimäki, aka 'zeekill' has been sentenced for aggravated data breach, extortion, and privacy violations for the 2020 hacking of a private psychoterapy clinic, stealing information about therapy sessions of about 33,000 patients, and trying to extort both the clinic, and individual patients.
Kivimäki was first sentenced in 2024 to 6 years and 3 months in prison. He appealed the sentencing, and was sentence to 6 years and 11 months in the Court of Appeal on 26 February 2026.

The Helsinki Court of Appeal on Thursday sentenced Aleksanteri Kivimäki for a series of crimes related to the Vastaamo psychotherapy center. The court slightly increased the man's sentence.


Kivimäki was sentenced to six years and 11 months. The sentence is one month short of the maximum sentence allowed by law for the crimes Kivimäki was found guilty of.

Translated into English with Google Translate:

Vastaamo | Tuomio koveni: Kivimäki on ulkomailla mutta asianajaja ei tiedä, missä

Tuomio koskee Vastaamon tietomurto- ja kiristystapausta. Kivimäki on pakoillut toistuvasti, mutta silti häntä ei kielletty matkustamasta.

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