North Korea Placed Sham IT Workers at US Companies, DOJ Says (1)

North Korea infiltrated hundreds of US companies—including a major television network and a US auto manufacturer—via impostor remote IT workers in a scheme that financed the authoritarian state’s nuclear weapons program, federal prosecutors allege in charges unsealed Thursday against a US and a Ukrainian citizen.

The Justice Department accuses an Arizona woman, Christina Chapman, with hosting dozens of overseas computers on her home network, allowing workers in China and multiple other countries to pose as US citizens under stolen or borrowed identities. This created at least $6.8 million in revenue from their paychecks that was ultimately transmitted to North ...