Pharmacies should no longer dispense powerful medication based solely on a customer entering a CPR number, a government agency says. The data leak makes additional identification necessary.
The plot could hardly have been written more inventively, if this were a crime novel about wrongdoing in the digital age. The details that have emerged about one of the biggest data leaks in Danish history are genuinely startling.
What the police consider digital burglars managed to make off with the personal ID numbers and addresses of 8.8 million Danes before anyone even suspected a heist was underway.
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