Arizona Woman Sentenced to 8 Years for Orchestrating $17 million North Korean Remote Work Scam

Arizona woman helped North Korean operatives land US remote tech jobs, laundering millions through a home-based “laptop farm.”

Cybercrime unveiled in the suburbs

Authorities sentenced an Arizona resident to over eight years in prison after discovering a covert “laptop farm” connected to a remote work scam involving North Korean IT operatives masquerading as American remote workers.

The case, which spanned three years, is one of the largest of its kind involving state-sponsored fraud linked t