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'123456' password linked to massive Danish CPR data breach
Original: `123456’ password used in massive Danish CPR data breach
Reports say a massive breach of Danish CPR data — the country's central personal identity numbers — involved an account protected by the password '123456', one of the world's most common. The case has raised alarms in Denmark about weak security practices around highly sensitive citizen data and triggered debate over accountability for the organisations handling it.
Why now: The revelation that trivially weak password protection may have exposed sensitive national identity data has sparked public concern and scrutiny in Denmark.
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