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Americans who masterminded Nork IT worker fraud sentenced to 200 months behind bars

American operators convicted for running North Korea's credential-theft scheme that breached 100+ US tech companies and at least one defense contractor, yielding $5M in fraud and 200-month combined sentences.

Thursday, April 16, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: The RegisterBY sys://pipeline

Two Americans sentenced to 200 months combined for facilitating North Korean IT worker fraud that defrauded over 100 US tech companies of approximately $5 million between 2021–2024. The scheme recruited North Korean workers who remotely accessed US tech jobs using stolen identities and spoofed IP addresses. At least one target was a US defense contractor.

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