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Hackers access Denmark's national register affecting 8.8 million people
Original: 🤖 Denmark: attackers accessed the CPR national register — names, addresses, personal IDs of ~8.8M people, living and dea
Attackers gained access to Denmark's CPR national population register, exposing names, addresses and personal ID numbers of roughly 8.8 million people, both living and deceased. The breach was carried out by abusing the lawful record-lookup access of a private Danish company. The Danish Ministry disclosed the incident on October 5, and the scale of exposure has drawn widespread concern about safeguarding state data accessed through third parties.
Why now: A breach touching virtually the entire Danish population via a private company's legitimate access is a major and unusual cybersecurity failure.
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- 🤖 Denmark: attackers accessed the CPR national register — names, addresses, personal IDs of ~8.8M people, living and dead — by abusing a private Danish company's lawful record-lookup access. Ministry disclosed Oct 5. 🔗 https:// thehackernews.com/2026/10/denm… · cloud@infosec.exchange · 1
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