A woman in Arizona has been sentenced to 8.5 years in prison for assisting North Korean hackers in infiltrating a US cryptocurrency company

According to a report by Golden Finance, the United States District of Columbia Prosecutor's Office announced that Christina Marie Chapman, a woman from Arizona, has been sentenced to 102 months (approximately 8.5 years) in prison for assisting North Korean hackers in infiltrating US cryptocurrency and technology companies using false identities. The prosecutor accuses Chapman of collaborating with North Korean agents to help him obtain remote IT positions at over 300 US companies. These North Korean workers impersonated US citizens and residents, and the program generated over $17 million in illegal income. In addition to imprisonment, Chapman was also ordered to confiscate over $284000 of the funds involved in the case and pay nearly $177000 in compensation. It is reported that this case involves the theft of 68 American identities and the deception of 309 American enterprises and 2 international companies. It is one of the largest North Korean IT staff infiltration cases prosecuted by the US Department of Justice.