Het Zuid-Koreaanse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken treft maatregelen om nieuwe paspoorten uit te geven voor 168 personen van wie de gevoelige persoonsgegevens online zijn gelekt. Onder de gedupeerden bevinden zich president Lee Jae Myung en first lady Kim Hea-kyung. De politie is inmiddels een onderzoek gestart naar de toedracht van het datalek.
Police said Tuesday they have launched a preliminary investigation into the online leak of personal information belonging to 168 individuals, including President Lee Jae Myung, his wife and Cabinet ministers. Earlier in June, a file titled "Passenger list (South Korea-Belgium)" was posted on a paid, security-related website, according to the Korean National Police Agency. The file reportedly contained the personal information of 168 individuals, including Lee and his wife, key government officia
The presidential office held an emergency meeting Tuesday to address the leak of personal information of President Lee Jae Myung and members of an entourage that accompanied him on his overseas trip in June. The meeting, presided over by presidential chief of staff Lim Kwang-hyun, followed news reports that a computer file containing personal data of Lee's entourage for his June overseas trip had been uploaded to a publicly accessible website that same month. Those affected also included the fir
Cheong Wa Dae on Tuesday ordered a thorough investigation into a personal data leak involving President Lee Jae Myung, presidential aides, security personnel and journalists accompanying his overseas trip. The move came after KBS reported Monday that passport details and other personal information of 168 people aboard the presidential aircraft had been exposed online for about five months. Presidential chief of staff Lim Kwang-hyun convened an emergency meeting Tuesday morning to discuss the inc
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Yonhap) -- The presidential office held an emergency meeting Tues...
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Yonhap) -- Police said Tuesday they have launched a preliminary i...
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Yonhap) -- The presidential office held an emergency meeting Tues...
Presidential data breach: Personal information belonging to President Lee Jae Myung, first lady Kim Hea Kyung and 166 others on presidential flights was exposed online for months, including passport details and dates of birth. Security detail exposed: The leak included presidential bodyguards whose identities are normally confidential, escalating the incident from a privacy breach to a potential presidential security threat. Five-month exposure: A presidential aircraft passenger list was upload
South Korea is scrambling to contain an unprecedented leak that exposed the personal information of President Lee Jae Myung and first lady Kim Hea Kyung, as well as senior aides, bodyguards and journalists accompanying them overseas. The exposure of the first couple's personal information was alarming enough. But the breach also revealed the identities of presidential security officers assigned to protect Lee at close range, raising deeper concerns about presidential security. The government has
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Yonhap) -- Police said Tuesday they have launched a formal invest...