`Steven Leal`

Steven Leal is an alias that 3 published sources report in connection with IT Worker Fraud activity, which public reporting attributes to North Korea (DPRK). It is cited here from Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) and Chollima Hunter. The earliest of those reports is dated 2025-07-30 and the most recent 2026-09-29.

The reporting files it under the persona Steven Leal, alongside 21 other identifiers attributed to the same identity. The persona page shows them together with any accounts, photographs and CV recorded under that name. A persona name is the one an account presented under, and may belong to an uninvolved person whose identity was taken.

alias IT Worker Fraud CURATED

First seen 2025-07-30 · last seen 2026-09-29

Sources

The post lists alenschmitt415@gmail.com and mitsurukudo213@gmail.com under a heading of 'Unattrib', meaning the researcher did not tie them to this persona. They are recorded on the unattributed entry rather than here.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1950686957748834390 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) · under “Steven Leal / Piao / steven228312 / Lucky Penny / LovelyBTC / BTC415” · published 2025-07-30 · pulled 2026-08-30
Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for every personal address this index transcribes from researchers' posts, and keeping the accounts whose own commits are signed with one. GitHub mints a noreply address from an account's immutable numeric id, in the form id+handle@users.noreply.github.com, so the former handles below are a matter of record. Counts of an account's own commits are over the 100 that GitHub's search returns for it. github.com/luckypenny1632333 is account id 177725156, created on 7 August 2024, display name Lucky Penny, bio Sr. Software Engineer, location Hong Kong. All 100 of its own commits in GitHub's search are signed stevenpiao0822@gmail.com, an address browsercookies gives for Steven Leal. Three commits in its repositories are signed alenschmitt415@gmail.com, which the account filed under Mark Santiago, github.com/marksantiago290, also commits with.
github.com/luckypenny1632333 — Chollima Hunter · under “Steven Leal” · pulled 2026-09-24
Found on 29 September 2026 by searching GitHub's code for the handles this site already holds for the persona (luckypenny1632) and reading the files that name them: contact blocks, profile READMEs and portfolio data in the persona's own repositories or in repositories that credit its accounts. Each value is cited to the file it was read from. Values in copied templates, client team pages and test data are not carried.
github.com/katlogic/solana-trading-bot/blob/0604df653106bb168a0c7b9d4c58f17c8d5fdaaf/README.md — Chollima Hunter · under “Steven Leal” · published 2026-02-26 · pulled 2026-09-29

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Other identifiers the reporting files under the same persona; 8 of 21 are shown.

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Cited by the same report: x.com/browsercookies/status/1950686957748834390

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Cited by the same report: github.com/luckypenny1632333

Chollima Hunter lists 2 other indicators in this source. 1 are shown, chosen across types.

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Cited by the same report: github.com/katlogic/solana-trading-bot/blob/0604df653106bb168a0c7b9d4c58f17c8d5fdaaf/README.md

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