Lucian Balan
Lucian Balan is an alias
that 2 published sources report
in connection with IT Worker Fraud activity, which public reporting
attributes to North Korea (DPRK).
It is cited here from Hayden McKenzie and Chollima Hunter.
The earliest of those reports is dated 2026-09-23 and the most recent 2026-09-24.
The reporting files it under the persona Lucian Balan, alongside 3 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
Sources
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Hayden McKenzie publishes this as one of the aliases recovered from a DPRK IT worker cell's own files, on a per-alias record that gives its location as Torrance, California and the role it presents as Senior JavaScript Full Stack Engineer, and the contact details above. The record was not on the site when this one first read it on 22 September 2026 and appeared alongside the report The Women Behind North Korea's IT Worker Operations, published on 23 September, so that is the date cited. The name is the identity the operation presents, not the operator's; a real person whose name or details it may have been assembled from is not the worker.
haydenmckenzie.com/aliases/lucian+balan — Hayden McKenzie -
Read 2026-09-24 by searching GitHub commits for the persona's address. GitHub credits commits signed oba24.com@gmail.com, the persona's address, to oba24, created in January 2024.
github.com/search?q=author-email%3Aoba24.com%40gmail.com&type=commits — Chollima Hunter
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