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Denmark population register breach exposes data on 8.8 million people

Original: 🤖 Denmark's Central Population Register (CPR) breach: ~8.8M people (80% of 11M records) exposed. Attackers abused a priv

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.

Why now: The sheer scale of the breach, touching most of Denmark's population, makes it a major cybersecurity story right now.

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• 🤖 Denmark's Central Population Register (CPR) breach: ~8.8M people (80% of 11M records) exposed. Attackers abused a private company's legitimate registry access and brute-forced valid CPR numbers to extract names, addresses and IDs. 🔗 https://www. bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu… · cloud@infosec.exchange · 1

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