Krebs OnSecurity in New ‘Most Wanted’ HBO Max Series
Summary: A four-part HBO Max documentary series, "Most Wanted: Teen Hacker," premiering in September 2025, follows Julius Kivimäki, a Finnish hacker convicted in April 2024 of extorting the Vastaamo psychotherapy practice and its patients after leaking tens of thousands of patient records. Kivimäki, who by 14 was involved in payment card data theft and swatting, received a two-year suspended sentence in 2015 for more than 50,000 cybercrimes, launched a Christmas 2014 DDoS attack on PlayStation and Xbox Live as part of the Lizard Squad, and was arrested in France in February 2023 while on the run.
Bottom line: A hacker convicted of 50,000 crimes at 17 got a suspended sentence and went on to extort roughly 22,000 therapy patients individually at 500 euros each - a direct measure of what a lenient early response can cost years later.
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