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The university cannot say what was taken, and will not write to the former students whose CPR numbers it holds

2026-10-12World

Attackers used stolen credentials to reach DTU's identity system and pulled records going back two decades. The 200,000 figure in every headline is the size of the database, not a count of victims. DTU is notifying employees directly and leaving 160,000 former users to find out from the news.

Nobody broke into Denmark's population register — a company allowed to search it looked up 8.8 million people

2026-10-08World

Danish authorities say unidentified parties misused a private company's legitimate access to the Central Person Register and stayed inside the limits that access permits. Names, addresses and CPR numbers for 8.8 million people, roughly four fifths of the register, were retrieved over about ten days in September.