{"id":1043701,"date":"2026-10-15T11:10:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T05:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043701"},"modified":"2026-10-15T11:10:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T05:40:46","slug":"hacker-claims-that-he-used-the-password-that-security-researchers-have-been-warning-internet-users-to-stop-using-since-over-five-years-to-hack-into-denmarks-national-registry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/15\/hacker-claims-that-he-used-the-password-that-security-researchers-have-been-warning-internet-users-to-stop-using-since-over-five-years-to-hack-into-denmarks-national-registry\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacker claims that he used the password that security researchers have been warning internet users to stop using since over five years to hack into Denmark&#8217;s national registry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hacker has reportedly claimed responsibility for breaching Denmark\u2019s national identity database saying that the massive intrusion was carried out using the \u2018most insecure password\u2019 for the last six years: \u201c123456.\u201d The breach compromised Denmark\u2019s Central Register of Persons (CPR), exposing records connected to approximately 8.8 million people. Speaking to Danish newspaper Politiken, the alleged hacker claimed they gained entry via an external IT contractor\u2019s legitimate corporate account secured by this sequence. The publication reported that at least three accounts belonging to the firm, including an administrator account, relied on the exact same numerical string. The individual told the outlet (via The Register) that they have no intention of leaking or selling the accessed citizen information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hacker has reportedly claimed responsibility for breaching Denmark\u2019s national identity database saying that the massive intrusion was carried out using the \u2018most insecure password\u2019 for the last six years: \u201c123456.\u201d The breach compromised Denmark\u2019s Central Register of Persons (CPR), exposing records connected to approximately 8.8 million people. Speaking to Danish newspaper Politiken, the alleged hacker claimed they gained entry via an external IT contractor\u2019s legitimate corporate account secured by this sequence. The publication reported that at least three accounts belonging to the firm, including an administrator account, relied on the exact same numerical string. The individual told the outlet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043705,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043701\/revisions\/1043705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}