Around 30,000 people are believed to have received the ransom demand some 25,000 reported it to the police. And because of that, the attack on the company rocked all of Finland. In a country of just 5.5 million-about the same as the state of Minnesota-it was the “McDonald’s of psychotherapy,” one Finnish journalist told me. Vastaamo ran the largest network of private mental-health providers in Finland. “Had I been one of the only people to get the mail, I would have been more scared,” he says. The next morning, Jere checked Twitter, where he was both horrified and relieved to learn that thousands of others had received the same threat. He passed out shortly after his friend arrived. He’d stored a few pills in his bedroom drawer just in case, but he never believed he’d need them again. He found his vape pen and took a Xanax, prescribed to him years earlier for anxiety. Jere poured himself a shot of vodka, then two or three more. That afternoon, he filed an online police report. Then, he says, he’d probably lose her from his life completely. She and Jere were on good terms now, but if she got involved she might learn what he’d said in his sessions. Then his mother called as the adult listed on his old account, she’d received the ransom note too. On the bus ride home, he frantically texted his best friend to come over. In the cafeteria, Jere grabbed his bag and told his friends he’d turn in his portion of the physics project the next day.
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