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American sentenced for helping North Koreans get jobs at U.S. firms


“The call is coming from inside the house. If this happened to these big banks, to these Fortune 500, brand name, quintessential American companies, it can or is happening at your company,” said U.S. attorney Jeanine Pirro.

Andrew Borene, executive director at Flashpoint threat intelligence, told Fortune: “This prosecution aims to draw a line, deterring future U.S. facilitators and sending a message to Pyongyang.” Chapman’s role running a laptop farm in the scheme peels back the curtain on a coordinated campaign by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to infiltrate American, and increasingly, European businesses. Workers, trained in tech and AI from an early age, are deployed to China, Russia, Nigeria, or the United Arab Emirates to manage dozens of fake or stolen identities, apply for remote IT jobs, and then send their salaries back to North Korea.

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