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Arizona woman sentenced over North Korea tech worker fraud scheme
ARIZONA, UNITED STATES, JUL 25 – Christina Chapman ran a laptop farm from her Arizona home enabling North Korean operatives to pose as Americans, defrauding over 300 U.S. companies and generating $17 million in illicit revenue.
- Christina Marie Chapman, a 50-year-old resident of Arizona, was given an 8.5-year federal prison sentence for her involvement in a complex fraud scheme benefiting North Korean IT operatives.
- From October 2020 to 2023, her scheme involved managing laptop farms and facilitating North Korean agents in impersonating IT employees physically located within the United States.
- Chapman and co-conspirators duped 309 American companies, stole 68 US citizens' identities, and generated about $17 million funneled to North Korea's regime.
- Acting Assistant Attorney General Galeotti cautioned that pursuing immediate personal benefits that harm citizens and aid a hostile foreign regime can lead to serious repercussions over time.
- The sentencing signals increased enforcement against US facilitators of adversarial schemes and urges companies to remain vigilant against such cyber threats.
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