{"id":21417,"date":"2026-10-14T12:10:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T12:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=21417"},"modified":"2026-10-14T12:10:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T12:10:04","slug":"hacker-claims-123456-password-let-them-breach-the-danish-national-registry-accessing-8-8-million-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=21417","title":{"rendered":"Hacker claims \u2018123456\u2019 password let them breach the Danish national registry, accessing 8.8 million records"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tom’s Hardware • Jowi Morales • October 13, 2026<\/strong><\/div>\n\n

A person claiming responsibility for a recent hack of Denmark’s national registry stated that they gained access because an IT company used a weak password. According to The Register, Pays ApS, an IT and data services firm that allows customers to reference the Danish Central Register of Persons (CPR), was the source of the breach. The hacker specifically claimed one breached account was protected only by the password "123456".<\/p>\n

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Copenhagen confirmed the incident after discovering it 12 days later through an invoice showing unusual activity. The Danish government reported that 8.8 million records were illicitly retrieved, though the hacker stated they do not intend to sell or leak the data. Pays ApS managing director Sophie Laursen confirmed that the attacker used the company’s access to exfiltrate the information from the database.<\/p>\n

This incident highlights that system security depends on the weakest link, as the Danish database was compromised through a third-party user’s poor password choice. While CPR contains information on virtually every Danish citizen, experts note such databases should ideally require more complicated passwords or two-factor authentication. This is not the first time government database protection has been exposed; Indonesia recently realized it had no backups after a ransomware attack in 2024 affected over 230 public agencies, and South Korea lost 858 terabytes of data following a catastrophic fire at a government data center last year.<\/p>\n

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Source:<\/strong> Tom’s Hardware • Jowi Morales • October 13, 2026<\/p>\n

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