North Korea Stole Your Job

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North Korea Stole Your Job

May 08, 2025 at 07:41PM

Working remotely? Are you sure you know exactly who your coworkers are? For Wired, Bobbie Johnson reports on the rise of North Korean job thieves. Using American shills who maintain dozens of laptops for fake workers, the frauds have used the relative anonymity of the internet and the powers of AI to land jobs at over 300 companies in the United States, all to earn money to send home to Kim Jong Un.

By the time investigators raided Chapman’s home, she was housing several dozen laptops, each with a sticky note indicating the fake worker’s identity and employer. Some of the North Korean operatives worked multiple jobs; some had been toiling quietly for years. Prosecutors said at least 300 employers had been pulled into this single scheme, including “a top-five national television network and media company, a premier Silicon Valley technology company, an aerospace and defense manufacturer, an iconic American car manufacturer, a high-end retail store, and one of the most recognizable media and entertainment companies in the world.” Chapman, they alleged, had helped pass along at least $17 million. She pleaded guilty in February 2025 to charges relating to wire fraud, identity theft, and money laundering and is awaiting sentencing.



from Longreads https://longreads.com/2025/05/08/north-korea-stole-your-job/
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