A group of North Korean IT workers have been indicted for allegedly making at least $88 million from fraudulently obtained US IT jobs and extortion payments.
The scheme involved using false identities of people in the US and other countries to gain IT jobs at US companies.
The workers received monthly wages of $10,000 and also stole sensitive information, threatening to publish it unless additional extortion payments were made.
The larger scheme is ongoing, and US authorities have disrupted one group while offering a reward of up to $5 million for information on the suspects and front companies.