South Korea Calls Emergency Meeting Over Entourage Data Leak

The presidential office in South Korea held an emergency meeting on Tuesday to address a leak involving personal data connected to President Lee Jae Myung and members of his overseas trip entourage in June. The briefing was led by presidential chief of staff Lim Kwang-hyun, following reports that a computer file containing the personal information of the President’s entourage was uploaded to a publicly accessible website in the same month.

Among those affected were the first lady, Kim Yong-beom (then presidential policy chief), National Security Adviser Wi Sung-lac, government ministers, presidential officials and journalists, according to earlier reporting. The information exposure is described as a leak tied to a publicly accessible data file, with coverage and details provided by Yonhap News. Park Boram is cited as the reporter for Databreaches[.]net, which notes the emergency meeting as a response to the incident.

The piece does not indicate any confirmed exploitation beyond the public availability of the data, nor does it include technical specifics about how the data became exposed.