Danish magazine likely to have tracked down celebrities by credit card info

[rosin]

A big media scandal is breaking in Denmark: It looks very likely, that the Danish gossip magazine Se og Hør (See and Hear) for several years has bought illegal credit card information about several members of the royal family and other celebrities. The information should origin from an employee of the credit card administration company Nets or of a company working for them.
Due to the scandal, several people have resigned or been sent on paid leave, most notably has the former editor-in-chief of Se og Hør, Henrik Qvortrup, resigned his job as political commentator on the Danish public tv-station TV 2.

cphpost.dk/news/news-of-the-weird.9386.html‎

dr.dk/Nyheder/Andre_sprog/English/2014/05/01/144557.htm

(sorry, can't post links, use copy & paste)

[politicus]

Hi and velkommen to the forum.
We have The Great Nordic Thread for general news about the Nordic countries minus Sweden, so you should put small stuff - like Qvortrup & Co`s low life practices - there to avoid cluttering the board.

EDIT: I see you have been around for a while, but your post count is low, so I thought you were new.

[Silent Hunter]

I'd say credit card hacking was big stuff.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

So this is a North European problem rather than a specifically British one.

[ingemann]

So this is a North European problem rather than a specifically British one.

This is the most soulless and hated of Danish celebrity journalism media bribing a single person working in a private company. Even when we look at scale, it in no way compare to the British scandal.

Don't get me wrong Danish media are just as horrible and moral bankrupt as British media. But it's in different way; one based on their deep incompetence, arrogance and political uniformity.

[politicus]

A big media scandal is breaking in Denmark: It looks very likely, that the Danish gossip magazine Se og Hør (See and Hear) for several years has bought illegal credit card information about several members of the royal family and other celebrities. The information should origin from an employee of the credit card administration company Nets or of a company working for them.
Due to the scandal, several people have resigned or been sent on paid leave, most notably has the former editor-in-chief of Se og Hør, Henrik Qvortrup, resigned his job as political commentator on the Danish public tv-station TV 2.

Qvortrup is also a former spindoctor for Liberal Prime Minister and current NATO General Secretary Anders Fogh Rasmussen, so a man of many talents..., nah, really just one: manipulation.