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Coming amid a broader trend of rising cyberattacks on government infrastructure (e.g., Estonia 2007, US OPM 2015), this incident amplifies the narrative that centralized data silos are liabilities. It intersects with the EU's eIDAS 2.0 digital identity framework and the MiCA regulation, which could either stifle or legitimize crypto identity solutions.

Hackers stole 8 million citizens' records from a Danish government database, affecting names, addresses, and state-issued ID numbers.