Five million Danish ID numbers sent to Chinese firm by mistake
This is ridiculous. It's not just Danish personal identification numbers, but ID numbers and health records for everyone who have lived in Denmark from 2010 through 2012.Quick recap since it's in Danish: A danish health authority, SSI, accidentally mailed two CDs containing unencrypted CPR-numbers and health records for 5.28m residents to the Chinese Visa Application Office.The Chinese delivered the letter to the intended recipient, Statistics Denmark, another danish government authority.The bubble cushioned mailer containing the CDs had been opened, but regardless the issue of course is the extremely reckless handling of very sensitive information.Edit: Article reporting on this in English http://www.thelocal.dk/20160720/five-million-danish-id-numbe...Edit 2: The specification and structure of the data that was sent with these CDs. https://twitter.com/christianpanton/status/75574223004496691... (also in Danish, but this seems to include almost everything; the carelessness in handling this data appears to have been surpassed only by the extent and completeness of it)