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Jul 24 2025 Laptop farmer behind $17M North Korean IT worker scam locked up for 8.5 years

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Plus she has to cough up a slice of Pyongyang’s payday An Arizona woman who ran a laptop farm from her home - helping North Korean IT operatives pose as US-based remote workers - has been sentenced to eight and a half years behind bars for her role in a $17 million fraud that hit more than 300 American companies.... [...]

Posted by Jessica Lyons on Thu 24 July 2025 in The Register.

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