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October 06, 2026 at 09:38 UTC
8.8 Million Impacted by Data Breach at Denmark’s Central Person Register
By Ionut Arghire
AI Summary
Denmark's Central Person Register (CPR) was breached via a private company's lawful API access, exposing names, addresses, and national ID numbers for all 8.8 million registered citizens — living and dead. The attack vector of abusing legitimate third-party data access rights rather than exploiting a technical flaw makes this particularly difficult to prevent through conventional controls.
Relevance score: 89.0/100
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