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Denmark's largest-ever data breach exposes 8.8 million citizens' CPR national ID records
Attackers abused a private company's authorized CPR access over ~10 days in September, scraping records on ~8.8 million people including names, addresses, and national ID numbers. Discovery via unusual billing patterns raised monitoring concerns.
TLDR
The breach highlights third-party access abuse risks in critical infrastructure underpinning taxes, healthcare, and banking. Its scale—exceeding Denmark's resident population—raises questions about monitoring gaps. It fuels broader data privacy and cybersecurity policy debates.
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