A Celebration for Hackers

Data theft continues: Following the attack on the Berlin state administration a month ago, in which the data of 1.5 million Berlin residents was stolen and encrypted, hackers in Denmark yesterday breached the central population registry and gained access to the data of 8.8 million citizens. In total, the population registry contains data on 11 million citizens. However, this also includes data on deceased or emigrated individuals.

It can therefore be assumed that all 6 million Danes are affected. Digital Minister Egelund in Copenhagen is calling it a serious incident. This is because the Danish CPR registry contains not only the usual personal data but also a special number (comparable to the German tax ID) that can be used to access — and, if necessary, manipulate — the population’s health data.

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