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Hacker says weak '123456' password exposed 8.8 million Danish records
Original: Hacker claims ‘123456’ password let them breach the Danish national registry, accessing 8.8 million records — IT and data services company with weak passwords linked source of the hack
A hacker claims to have breached Denmark's national population registry by logging in through an IT and data services company that was still using the password '123456', gaining access to roughly 8.8 million records covering most of the population. The claim is drawing attention to basic password hygiene failures among suppliers handling sensitive government data, and Danish authorities are under pressure to confirm the scale of the exposure.
Why now: The scale of the alleged breach and the absurdly weak password involved make it a striking cybersecurity story.
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