Denmark investigates suspected misuse of CPR database access in serious security incident

Denmark’s central civil registry says it identified a serious security incident involving misuse of a Danish company’s legitimate access to CPR data. The country’s data protection authority says it received a report and is investigating allegations that a large number of CPR numbers were obtained through automated lookups. Euronews separately described the case as affecting 8.8 million people, but that figure is not confirmed in the official notices cited here.