The hacker gained access to 8.8 million records of the state register of Denmark through a weak password of the IT company
The attacker penetrated into the state register of Denmark, using an unreliable password of the account of the IT firm Pays ApS, the correspondent of the company said.
The attacker entered the state register of Denmark, using an unreliable password of the account of the IT firm Pays ApS, the correspondent of the Minsk-Novosti agency reports.
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According to the hacker, one of the compromised accounts was only protected by a combination of 123456. The authorities of Copenhagen confirmed the fact of hacking, writes The Register. It is noteworthy that the leak became known only 12 days after the system recorded abnormally high activity of the company.
The Danish government said 8.8 million records were illegally downloaded. At the same time, the hacker himself assures that he does not plan to sell or publish the data. In turn, the managing director of Pays ApS Sophie Laursen admitted that the attacker used the company’s corporate access to the database to extract information.
