#government-identity
- News · Nov 4, 2026DigiD DDoS shows how little availability headroom the Dutch national login has left
A DDoS attack on October 30 left DigiD only partly reachable for about 90 minutes, blocking logins to the Dutch tax office and MijnOverheid. Government figures show DigiD availability down to 99.57% this year against a 99.5% norm.
- News · Oct 13, 2026Password "123456" linked to the breach of Denmark's national CPR register covering 8.8 million people
Someone abused a private company's lawful search access to Denmark's CPR register and pulled names, addresses and CPR numbers for about 8.8 million people. A person claiming responsibility says the account password was 123456.
- News · Oct 6, 2026NIST opens an implementation hub for SP 800-63-4, with machine-readable conformance criteria
NIST launched a resource site for the Digital Identity Guidelines, Revision 4, with FAQs, version 0.1 conformance criteria in Excel, PDF and OSCAL, a subscriber-controlled wallet explainer, and an authenticator reference. It adds no new requirements.
- News · Sep 29, 2026America.gov launches as an AI front door to federal services, with Login.gov as its sign-in
GSA and the White House National Design Studio launched America.gov, an AI-assisted entry point to federal services. The executive order behind it makes Login.gov the authentication service and commits to no central citizen database. Transactions arrive in 2027, and the identity rules for them are still to be written.