The CPR numbers and health information of 5.3 million residents was sent to a Chinese company. “The CDs contained information on personal [ID] numbers and health information, but not names or addresses. When the letter later made its way to Statistics Denmark, the data agency said that it had been opened. The Danish Data Protection Agency (Datatilsynet) said on Wednesday that the CPR numbers of 5,282,616 people were mistakenly delivered to the Chinese Visa Application Centre, a Copenhagen-based Chinese company. When contacted by Danish news agency Ritzau on Wednesday, SSI referred questions to the health information agency Sundhedsdatastyrelsen, which could not be contacted because it is closed for summer holiday.

Source: The Local July 20, 2016 13:17 UTC