{
  "id": 17890344,
  "title": "Police launch probe into personal data leak involving President Lee",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/police-launch-probe-into-personal-data-leak-involving-president-lee-17890344",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-03T01:57:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/politics/20261103/police-launch-probe-into-personal-data-leak-involving-president-lee"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Korea Times reports that police have launched a preliminary investigation into the online leak of personal data involving 168 individuals, including President Lee Jae Myung and senior government officials. The National Police Agency began the investigation on Monday after discovering that information from a presidential aircraft passenger list was posted online. The exposed data included passport details and other sensitive personal information, affecting high-ranking government officials, the president, his first lady, cabinet members, and press corps members who accompanied the president on an overseas trip. The leaked data contained Korean and English names, affiliations, job titles, dates of birth, passport numbers, and passport issuance and expiration dates. The compromised file had been accessible on a paid security-related website since June 2, prior to the president's departure for the trip and remained accessible for months.",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 4,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Yonhap News",
        "title": "Police launch investigation into leak of presidential plane passenger information",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/police-launch-investigation-into-leak-of-presidential-plane-passenger",
        "published": "2026-11-03T01:15:55.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "South China Morning Post",
        "title": "South Korea rushes to reissue passports to President Lee, wife after data leak",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/south-korea-rushes-to-reissue-passports-to-president-lee-wife-after",
        "published": "2026-11-03T03:00:29.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "South Korea investigates leak of President Lee’s passport details",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/south-korea-investigates-leak-of-president-lees-passport-details",
        "published": "2026-11-03T03:43:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}