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North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500

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145 points cwwc | 1 comments | 08 Apr 25 00:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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cootsnuck ◴[08 Apr 25 04:38 UTC] No.43618391[source]▶
So whenever I have gotten a job in tech, I've had to complete a background check if I get the job offer. How exactly are these fake profiles passing basic background checks?

They would have to be impersonating real people if pretending to be Americans. Unless these companies aren't doing the most basic background checks beyond just looking at resumes and LinkedIn profiles. Pretty weird and seems not too difficult to prevent...

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bitmasher9 ◴[08 Apr 25 04:56 UTC] No.43618456[source]▶
If you’re a state actor it probably wouldn’t be too hard to create US citizen IDs anyone could fall into.

Hack a hospital to give a birth certificate for a new born baby (easily within NK’s reach), and then mail the documents for a SS card. In eighteen years have an agent take the GED and SAT, and score well enough to get into state school. Then graduate and apply to the list of target companies you want to infiltrate.

You’d have to go pretty deep into someone’s identity to unearth this sort of approach. Probably not enough for a military clearance, but enough for anything not directly defense related.

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1. olyjohn ◴[08 Apr 25 05:14 UTC] No.43618529[source]▶
You can probably buy 90% of the data you need from a broker. Also Equifax leaked all of our personal data too. This is the consequence of all the data leaks and legal harvesting.