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DPRK IT worker stole tokens from a cryptocurrency platform via vulnerabilities he wrote into its smart contracts

Year
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Actors (as written)
a DPRK IT worker
Actor pages
a DPRK IT worker
Tags (as written)
IT workers; insider theft
Dollar figures (as written)
hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars' worth

Source entries (1)

UN Panel of Experts S/2023/656

DPRK IT worker stole tokens from a cryptocurrency platform via vulnerabilities he wrote into its smart contracts
Annex 68 (The Panel’s summary of interviews with relevant experts on DPRK IT workers), 8) Additional Illicit Activities: “For instance, one DPRK IT worker provided IT services (including building smart contracts) to a cryptocurrency platform for several tokens. Later, the DPRK IT worker stole hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars' worth of these tokens from the platform, enabled by vulnerabilities the IT worker wrote into the smart contracts.”
https://undocs.org/S/2023/656

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