Ministry of Foreign Affairs (South Korea)

Passport data of 168 on South Korean presidential flight sat exposed on VirusTotal for five months

Yonhap reports that a passenger list for the South Korean presidential aircraft, containing Korean and English names, affiliations, titles, dates of birth and passport numbers of 168 people including President Lee Jae Myung, the first lady, ministers, presidential guards and journalists, was uploaded to malware-scanning site VirusTotal on June 2 and downloadable by paid members for about five months; police opened a formal criminal probe on November 3 and the foreign ministry reported it to the privacy watchdog .