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October 05, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Denmark population registry data breach affects 8.8 million people
By Bill Toulas
AI Summary
Denmark's Central Population Register (CPR) suffered a data breach exposing personal information of approximately 8.8 million registered individuals — effectively the entire Danish population. The breach represents a catastrophic single-point failure of a national identity registry, with implications for identity fraud and downstream authentication systems that rely on CPR data. Incident details are still emerging as Danish authorities investigate unauthorized access to the register.
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