WASHINGTON—A woman from Arizona has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison for helping North Korean technology workers steal the identities of U.S. citizens to obtain employment in the country.
Christina Marie Chapman, aged 50, was a resident of Litchfield Park in Arizona—a suburb of Phoenix—who created a “laptop farm” at her home, where she would receive computers shipped by U.S. corporations allegedly to their “virtual employees” and operate them with U.S.-based IP addresses.
The work of those companies, however, was being performed by North Korean citizens based abroad, who obtained employment using 68 false identities of U.S. citizens and Lawful Permanent Residents and, thereafter, defrauded the companies where they worked….