[Breaking] Blue House convenes emergency meeting over leak of presidential delegation’s personal information: “A serious matter; thorough investigation”

[Financial News] The Blue House held an emergency meeting on the 3rd regarding the leak of personal information belonging to passengers aboard Code One during President Lee Jae Myung’s overseas trip, and called for a thorough investigation into the facts and measures to prevent a recurrence.
Kang Yoo-jung, the Blue House’s senior spokesperson, said in a written briefing that day that an emergency meeting on the leak of personal information belonging to the presidential delegation had been held, chaired by Lim Kwang-hyun, the presidential chief of staff.
At the meeting, Chief of Staff Lim said, “The leak of the presidential delegation’s personal information is a serious matter that cannot be taken lightly,” and stressed that the circumstances of the leak, the scope of the information exposed, and whether any actual harm had occurred must be thoroughly investigated, and that the relevant agencies’ oversight responsibilities must be clearly established.
He also asked the relevant agencies to comprehensively review the security management system for presidential overseas trips and draw up effective measures to prevent a recurrence, so that similar incidents would not happen again.
It was reported earlier that personal information belonging to 168 passengers aboard Code One, the presidential aircraft, had been exposed on the internet for an extended period when President Lee embarked on an overseas trip last June to attend the G7 Summit.
KBS reported on the 2nd that a list of Code One passengers, believed to have been drawn up during the G7 Summit trip last June, had been posted for about five months on a paid website related to security.
The list reportedly contained the personal information of 168 people in total, including President Lee and his wife, senior government officials such as Bae Kyung-hoon, deputy prime minister and minister of science and ICT; Foreign Minister Cho Hyun; and Wi Sung-lac, head of the Blue House Office of National Security, as well as Presidential Security Service employees and reporters accompanying the delegation. It reportedly included sensitive information such as their affiliations and positions, dates of birth, and passport numbers.
The materials had been posted as early as June 2, a week before the delegation’s departure. Reports that the identities of personnel providing close protection to the president and medical staff had also been exposed raised security concerns.
The Blue House said the previous day that it had learned of the matter in advance and taken response measures. A Blue House official explained, “We became aware of the reported information in advance and took response measures, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other agencies will take additional measures going forward.”
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