This is going to be a bit shaky, as it’s based on Google translator, but George Bendsen seems to be reporting that the Social Security Office of Economic Affairs and the Interior Ministry accidentally exposed 900,000 Danish citizens’ Social Security numbers. It happened in the “Robinson list,” a list of Danes who do not want direct mail advertising, direct mail in their mailbox.
The breach has been laid at the doorstep of a state contractor, CSC, it seems.
Read more on Borsen.dk and if you can offer a fuller, more helpful translation, use the Comments section.
h/t, Brian Honan
Update from the I-should-have-thought-of-this-sooner-but-I-hadnt-had-my-coffee dept.: The Local (DK) has coverage in English. My translation above was correct as far it went, but they add:
The numbers, which are used for almost all interactions with the public sector, were available online for nearly an hour before the error was discovered. According to Børsen, at least 18 companies downloaded the CPR numbers for marketing purposes and have been given until today at 4pm to confirm that they have deleted the sensitive information.