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International Business Times
International Business Times
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North Koreans Infiltrated American Companies; Workers Sent Paychecks Back to Pyongyang: Report

North Korean IT workers obtain Americans' personal information and use those identities to pass employment screenings and apply for jobs within the United States to send revenue back to Pyongyang. (Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

North Korea has quietly built a hidden workforce inside American companies, using stolen identities, artificial intelligence and U.S.-based accomplices to land remote jobs and funnel hundreds of millions of dollars back to Pyongyang.

A yearlong Wall Street Journal investigation offers one of the most detailed looks yet at how the operation works, tracing a single cell of North Korean IT workers through leaked browser histories, emails, calendars and screen recordings taken from the group's own computers. The findings are part of the Journal's documentary, "Infiltrated: North Korea's Secret U.S. Workforce."

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