Finland facing large-scale hacking attacks
Finland is being targeted by a cyber activism campaign, police acknowledged Tuesday, after an apparent local branch of online "hacktivist" group Anonymous said it had hacked some 500,000 email accounts.
"It's beginning to look like a campaign," Timo Piiroinen of Finland's National Bureau of Investigation told AFP. A group calling itself Anonymous Finland has claimed responsibility for a number of recent hacking incidents in the Nordic country, including hacking and publishing some 500,000 email accounts as well as nearly 15,000 passwords.
The personal identification and contact details of some 16,000 Finns were also leaked online in a separate incident earlier claimed by Anonymous. Police said Finland had experienced random cyber attacks in the past, but that the current situation appeared different.
