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FBI Raids Over 40 Texas Homes in North Korean Laptop Farm Case
Original: FBI Raids Over 40 Texas Homes, Charges Americans in North Korean ‘Laptop Farm’ Scheme The FBI says American facilitators
The FBI has raided more than 40 homes in Texas and charged American facilitators accused of helping North Korean IT workers obtain remote jobs at US companies under false identities. Investigators say the scheme, known as a laptop farm, generated millions of dollars funneled back to Pyongyang, and the crackdown has drawn widespread attention to insider hiring fraud.
Why now: The scale of the coordinated raids and revelations about North Korean operatives working inside US companies is striking news.
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