The alleged culprit in Saturday’s trash can bombing at Estonia’s biggest shopping center is well-known to authorities and has been convicted of large-scale hacking and threats of violence in the past, Delfi reported.
In 2021, Artur Boiko, now 60, hacked into the Estonian state IT system, downloading hundreds of thousands of confidential files.
He was taken into custody only in March 2022, after he began threatening a state official and that official’s family.
The threats related to the banning of Russian TV channels in the aftermath of the invasion of Ukraine.
In June 2022, he was convicted of both making threats and hacking a computer system in a vital sector, from which he exploited a security vulnerability to download nearly 300,000 document images and other sensitive personal data.
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