Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 11 months ago

Thousands of remote IT workers sent wages to North Korea to help fund weapons program, FBI says

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Thousands of remote IT workers sent wages to North Korea to help fund weapons program, FBI says

Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 11 months ago

Federal authorities say that thousands of information technology workers contracting with U.S. companies secretly sent millions of dollars of their wages to North Korea for use in its ballistic missile program

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Before reading the article, I just assumed that N. Korea had hacked a game with loot boxes.

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