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Kejia Wang / Zhenxing Wang laptop-farm IT worker scheme (100+ U.S. companies)

Date (as written)
From approximately 2021 until October 2024
Year
2021
Country
United States
Actors (as written)
DPRK IT workers
Actor pages
DPRK IT workers
Tags (as written)
IT workers; laptop farm; identity theft
Dollar figures (as written)
$3 million

Source entries (1)

USAO District of Massachusetts press release: Two U.S. nationals (Kejia Wang, Zhenxing Wang) sentenced (2026-04-15)

Kejia Wang / Zhenxing Wang laptop-farm IT worker scheme (100+ U.S. companies) · From approximately 2021 until October 2024
From approximately 2021 until October 2024, the defendants and other co-conspirators compromised the identities of more than 80 U.S. persons to obtain remote jobs at more than 100 U.S. companies, including many Fortune 500 companies, and caused U.S. victim companies to incur legal fees, computer network remediation costs, and other damages of at least $3 million.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/two-us-nationals-sentenced-facilitating-fraudulent-remote-worker-scheme-generated-5

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