Password "123456" on admin accounts breached data of 8.8M people in Denmark
AIFlow_ML · x · 2026-10-12
A hacker claims a breach exposing data on 8.8 million people in Denmark stemmed from admin accounts at Pays ApS — a two-person private IT firm with lawful access to the national population register — using the password "123456" on at least three accounts.
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