The Department of Justice arrested one person and charged over a dozen more in connection with a fraudulent information technology scam that funded the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea.

United States Attorneys from Massachusetts and Georgia allege that North Korean actors were given remote access to some 100 U.S. companies by posing under false identities with the help of people in the U.S., China, Taiwan, and the United Arab Emirates. The scheme resulted in the theft of $900,000 in virtual currency plus $5 million in revenue.

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