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Denmark Leaked More People Than Live There

Denmark has managed to leak more people than actually live there. The government said Monday that "unauthorized users gained access to its national population register" in a breach affecting about 8.8 million people, in a country of under six million. That maths is the giveaway. This was described as "one of the largest exposures of personal data in Danish history," and the reason the number overshoots the population is that the register is history, everyone who held a number, living, dead and moved away.

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Tech Briefing — Sunday, October 11 2026

Hurricane Isaias leaves four dead across the US Gulf Coast, while Trump turns on Zelenskyy over a Russia diesel deal. In tech, OpenAI ships an 8x-faster GPT-6.1 mode and a Telegram Desktop flaw exposed any user's files — plus a Danish breach pulled off with a '123456' password.

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  • 🔒 Security 2
  • 🌍 World and Australia 5
  • 🌐 Notable 4
  • 🔥 Hacker News 5
Wallpaper — 2026-10-11

Inspiration Denmark's CPR breach: 8.8 million records exposed not by storming the vault, but through one small trusted firm's door — guarded by a '123456' password.

Prompt by z-ai/glm-5.3-prime

Image model bytedance-seed/seedream-5-0-pro

British post-war public-information poster in flat painted shapes, depicting a vast institutional archive in the background as towering olive-green filing blocks, while in the foreground a small grey porter's office with a lit cream window sits wide open, its oxblood door ajar and a huge ring of keys hanging unlocked on a hook beside it. Calm, stable, symmetrical composition with strong silhouettes; soft overcast daylight from above, muted shadows in slate grey, palette strictly olive green, oxblood, cream and slate grey. No text, no lettering anywhere, flat gouache texture, generous empty cream sky in the upper portion. 9:16 portrait phone wallpaper.

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