Crypto Job Scam: US Woman Sentenced for Aiding North Korean Hackers

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A woman from Arizona has been sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison for her involvement in a wide-ranging fraud scheme that enabled North Korean operatives to gain remote employment at hundreds of US-based technology and cryptocurrency firms. According to the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, 50-year-old Christina Marie Chapman played a key role in facilitating illegal remote access for North Korean IT workers, generating over $17 million in illicit revenue for he...