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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva suggested limiting the number of credit cards a person can hold per CPF, Brazil's taxpayer ID. The proposal is drawing pushback from people who argue many Brazilians rely on multiple cards not out of extravagance but because their salary runs out before the end of the month. Critics say the real problem for Brazilians is not simply owning two cards, but the gap between wages and the cost of living.

The Chrome browser extension Touch VPN — приватный VPN is being flagged with a cybersecurity risk score of 92 out of 100, marking it as likely malicious. Automated security monitoring flagged the extension, which is marketed to Russian-speaking users as a private VPN service. Users are being warned to remove it and treat browser VPN extensions with caution.

Denmark's Central Population Register (CPR) has suffered a major data breach affecting roughly 8.8 million people, about 80% of the register's 11 million records. Attackers exploited a private company's legitimate access to the registry and brute-forced valid CPR numbers, extracting names, addresses and personal ID numbers. It is one of the largest data exposures in Danish history.

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.