US Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro said, ‘If this happened to these big banks, to these Fortune 500, brand-name, quintessential American companies, it can or is happening at your company.’
An Arizona woman has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for her role in a fraudulent scheme that helped North Koreans obtain remote IT positions at 309 US companies, including an unnamed member of the Fortune 500.
The FBI said victims included a top-five major television network, a Silicon Valley technology company, an aerospace manufacturer, an American carmaker, a luxury retail store, and a US media and entertainment company. Christina Marie Chapman, 50, and the North Korean IT workers reportedly netted more than $17.1 million via the scheme.
North Korea has long deployed thousands of its IT workers around the world, including in the US, to obtain remote employment using false, stolen or borrowed identities of US persons.
