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Reply 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 ar ....
Indicted (from left): Kim Il, Park Jin Hyok and Jon Chang Hyok Three North Koreans have been indicted for allegedly taking part in a criminal conspiracy that attempted to steal or extort $1.3 billion in cryptocurrency and cash from banks and other organizations around the world, the U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday. In a 33-page federal indictment unsealed Wednesday, prosecutors allege that the hackers are part of an elite cyber unit - known as the Lazarus Group, APT38 or Hidden Cobra - within North Korea s military intelligence operation, the Reconnaissance General Bureau. Simply put, the regime has become a criminal syndicate with a flag, which harnesses its state resources to steal hundreds of millions of dollars. ....
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