Arizona Woman Jailed for Helping North Korea in $17M IT Job Scam

Arizona woman jailed 8.5 years for aiding North Korea’s $17 million IT job scam, defrauding over 300 US companies. Learn how to protect your business from such sophisticated cybersecurity threats.

An Arizona woman has been sentenced to over eight years in prison for her significant role in a fraudulent operation that funnelled more than $17 million to North Korea. According to the US Department of Justice (DoJ), Christina Marie Chapman, 50, from Litchfield Park, assisted North Korean Information Technology (IT) workers in posing as US residents to secure remote jobs at 309 American companies, including Fortune 500 corporations.

This case represents one of the largest North Korean IT worker fraud schemes ever prosecuted by the US DoJ, in which Chapman received a sentence of 102 months (8 years) in prison, along with three years of supervised release, for her guilty pleas on February 11 in the District of ...