`Hakeo Hiratani`

Hakeo Hiratani 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 2026-08-19 and the most recent 2026-09-24.

The reporting files it under the persona Hakeo Hiratani, 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

First seen 2026-08-19 · last seen 2026-09-24

Sources

Hayden McKenzie publishes this as one of the aliases tracked across the three investigations the site cites, on a per-alias record that gives its location as Tyler, Texas, the role it presents as Full Stack Developer, and the contact details above. This site already holds the X account Hakeohiratani and the web3.career handle hakeohiratani, both from a May 2025 Narcass3 post that addresses the account as a DPRK operator. The name matches across two researchers working from unrelated material; the Gmail address here appears in neither of those posts. The alias pages carry no date of their own, so the date cited is the site's own "Updated 19 Aug 2026" stamp, the last date it states anything was published. 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/hakeo+hiratani+(usa) — Hayden McKenzie · under “Hakeo Hiratani” · published 2026-08-19 · pulled 2026-09-23
Read 2026-09-24 by searching GitHub commits for the persona's address. GitHub credits commits signed hiratani0305@gmail.com, the persona's address, to hiratani0219, created in March 2022, including commits in the CA persona's devhakeo repositories.
github.com/search?q=author-email%3Ahiratani0305%40gmail.com&type=commits — Chollima Hunter · under “Hakeo Hiratani” · pulled 2026-09-24

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