Denmark CPR Data Breach: 8.8 Million Records

By Editorial Team | October 9, 2026
Denmark CPR data breach: 8.8 million records pulled through one company's lawful registry access. An oversized invoice exposed it after ten days.

The Denmark CPR data breach exposed the names, addresses and personal ID numbers of about 8.8 million people, roughly four in five records in the country’s Central Person Register. Unauthorized parties reached it through a smaller company’s lawful lookup access, ran more than 14 million queries over about ten days in September, and were noticed…

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