Why did he

want you involved? I asked him that exact question.

When the hacker replied, he was unapologetic.

It is in our interests to get the full story out there.

Bastamo has had the opportunity to prevent the release of this data, but so far they've been unwilling.

In a country of awkward conversations, Henrik, a newspaper reporter, had to work out how best to communicate with the hacker who was exposing this very reserved nation's most private thoughts.

I started exchanging emails with him, asking detailed questions and also hard questions.

My question was that you are held responsible if and when this action causes suicides or other forms of extreme outcome.

And how personal were the things in those notes?

Very personal.

About depression, about your spouse cheating, about self-destructive thoughts and thoughts of suicide and sexual problems.

What you get in therapy, extremely, extremely personal.

A reader quickly got in touch.

After I wrote the first story on the incident, 11 minutes after that I got an email.

The email was in English.

Hello, I've seen your article regarding the Vastamo incident.