About this episode
Jenny Kleeman investigates a data breach at a Finnish psychotherapy service where secrets are held to ransom by a hacker.
What would you do if your deepest secrets were held to ransom? Jenny Kleeman investigates one of the world's most audacious hacks. When a shocking data breach takes place at a Finnish psychotherapy service, the nation's darkest secrets are held to ransom by a faceless hacker. He calls himself ransom_man. Award-winning journalist Jenny Kleeman (BBC Radio 4's The Gift) traces the story from the first extortion email to the hunt to find the hacker and bring him to justice. We all have some thoughts we'd never write down. Now, just imagine that a criminal had got hold of those thoughts, and was threatening to publish them for all the world to see if you didn't pay to stop him. Jenny finds out what kind of person is prepared to terrorise a nation like this, and the lengths people will go to fight back. On the way, she'll discover that the origins of this dark crime stretch far beyond Finland. Her extraordinary quest leads her around the world and to unexpected places, bringing Jenny face to face with victims, investigators, police and notorious hackers themselves. It is a cautionary tale about something that could happen anywhere, to any of us, again and again. Jenny will learn just…
People in this episode
Host: Jenny Kleeman
Topics covered
- data breach
- hacking
- psychotherapy
- extortion
- crime
- investigation
Keywords
- ransom
- hacker
- data breach
- psychotherapy
- extortion
- Jenny Kleeman
- crime
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: BBC Radio 4, Finnish psychotherapy service
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