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Thousands of North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500—and they keep getting hired for more jobs

Summary by Fortune
Fortune 500 companies have unwittingly hired thousands of software engineers who claim to be American developers but are actually North Korean citizens using stolen or fake identities. Through legitimate employment, the IT workers are illegally funneling their salaries to Kim Jong Un’s regime to fund prohibited weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs. The U.S. Treasury, State Department, and FBI collectively estimate the IT wo…

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Fortune broke the news in New York, United States on Monday, April 7, 2025.
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