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US indicts five individuals in crackdown on North Korea's illicit IT workforce | TechCrunch

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North Korean citizens Jin Sung-Il and Pak Jin-Song were indicted in a multi-year scheme that saw them obtain remote IT employment with dozens of American companies.

Indictment alleges that the defendants gained employment from at least 64 American organizations over the course of the scheme, which ran from April 2018 through August 2024 .

Payments from ten companies generated at least $ 866,255 in revenue, most of which was laundered through a Chinese bank account.

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