Hacker broke into Denmark's national ID database with password "123456," exposing 8.8M people
CurieuxExplorer · x · 2026-10-15
Per Kalshi's breaking news: a hacker accessed Denmark's national ID database using the password "123456", exposing details of 8.8 million people. The sheer absurdity of one of history's weakest passwords guarding a national database makes this possibly the cheapest major data breach ever.
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