🇩🇰 Hackers just got their hands on the names, addresses and national ID numbers of about 8.8 million people in Denmark's central population register. That's more people than actually live in Denmark, since the register also covers the dead and those who moved abroad. The CPR number is Denmark's version of a Social Security number, used for pretty much everything from banking to doctor's visits. They didn't even need to break in. They abused a private Danish company's legal access to the system and quietly pulled the data all through September. Denmark is far from the only one, with government databases from France to Japan getting raided this year and millions of citizens' details ending up for sale online. Governments keep asking for more of our data, and they keep losing it. Source: Danish CPR Administration / Writer: Julie