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Kim Il (Department of Justice)
Park Jin Hyok (Department of Justice)
LOS ANGELES, CA Federal prosecutors unsealed an explosive indictment in Los Angeles Wednesday accusing North Korean hackers of a $1.3 billion conspiracy targeting international businesses and of perpetrating the infamous Sony Pictures email hack of 2014 and the WannaCry ransomware attack of 2017.
The indictment accuses the three alleged hackers of working for the military intelligence agency of the Democratic People s Republic of Korea at times stationed in Russia and China. According to prosecutors, the three defendants are the world s leading 21st-century nation-state bank robbers using keyboards instead of guns to commit brazen robberies. The wide-ranging hacking and extortion scheme targeted banks, cryptocurrency companies, and U.S. agencies and defense firms, prosecutors allege. The whereabouts of the three alleged hackers Jon Chang Hyok, 31, Kim Il, 27, and Park Jin Hyok, 36 are unknown.