ZDNet reports a five-year software error allowed open access to the identification numbers of 1.26 million Danish citizens. A bug inserted onto the login for the Danish tax administration's official self-service portal helped collect citizens' identification numbers. The Danish Agency for Development and Simplification, which discovered the error during an audit, said there was no danger for potential cases of fraud, adding the data "most likely" was only collected by a pair of analytics companies.
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