Daniel Jin

Daniel Jin is an alias that 4 published sources report in connection with IT Worker Fraud activity, which public reporting attributes to North Korea (DPRK). It is cited here from Kawaii Jong UwUn (@KawaiiJongUwUn) and Chollima Hunter. The reports are dated 2025-08-09.

The reporting files it under the persona Daniel Jin, alongside 13 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 2025-08-09 · last seen 2025-08-09

Sources

  • Linked to Michael Liu Liang by follows; the 0811 suffix recurs across the GitHub handles and the addresses. The chart also lists an org chart entry at theorg.com, a freelancermap profile and a RemoteHub profile under the Daniel Jin name. Transcribed from the researcher's chart, which groups every account under the name it gives here and draws its links from mutual follows, shared contact details and repositories carrying one another's details. Accounts on platforms this site does not index, as the chart lists them: github.com/changdev0811/employee/commit/e3b69969ecae6a3e13dabaf3b991fc7d992b2cb5, theorg.com/org/kickoff-by-zuju/org-chart/daniel-jin, freelancermap.com/profile/daniel-jin, remotehub.com/daniel.jin.
    github.com/Kawaii-Jong-UWUn/ITW-Cluster-Research/tree/main/EliteCoder — Kawaii Jong UwUn (@KawaiiJongUwUn) · under “Daniel Jin / Xin He” · published 2025-08-09 · pulled 2026-08-30
  • Found on 13 September 2026 by probing every account handle this site already holds for this operator against GitLab, and read from the profile cited. An active GitLab account exists under big.dreamwork999, a login the index already carries for this persona on another platform. The profile gives a member-since date of 8 November 2022. It displays "Big Dream", which is a display name rather than a person's name and is recorded here rather than as an alias. The handle is what links this account to the rest; nothing here establishes that one person holds both, and a display name on a profile is a name the account presents, not an identification. The profile's bio, location and links render only in a browser and were not read, so nothing is claimed about them either way.
    gitlab.com/big.dreamwork999 — Chollima Hunter · under “Daniel Jin” · pulled 2026-09-13
  • Found on 13 September 2026 by probing every account handle this site already holds for this operator against GitLab, and read from the profile cited. An active GitLab account exists under smith0811, a login the index already carries for this persona on another platform. The profile states no member-since date this site could read. It displays the name jhon smith, which no source this site holds had attached to this operator before. The handle is what links this account to the rest; nothing here establishes that one person holds both, and a display name on a profile is a name the account presents, not an identification. The profile's bio, location and links render only in a browser and were not read, so nothing is claimed about them either way.
    gitlab.com/smith0811 — Chollima Hunter · under “Daniel Jin / jhon smith” · pulled 2026-09-13
  • Found on 18 September 2026 by taking the local part of an address this index already holds for this operator -- anywhere0811 -- and asking Docker Hub whether an account exists under it. The address is on a consumer mail host, where the local part is a login the holder chose rather than one an employer assigned; handles taken from company addresses were excluded from this pass for that reason. The account states a registration date of 16 December 2024 and a display name of Hlieb Bashchun. The login is what links this account to the rest; nothing here establishes that one person holds both, and a display name on a profile is a name the account presents, not an identification.
    hub.docker.com/u/anywhere0811 — Chollima Hunter · under “Daniel Jin / Hlieb Bashchun” · pulled 2026-09-18

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Related indicators

Same persona record: Daniel Jin

Other identifiers the reporting files under the same persona; 8 of 13 are shown.

All 13 on the Daniel Jin page

Cited by the same report: github.com/Kawaii-Jong-UWUn/ITW-Cluster-Research/tree/main/EliteCoder

Kawaii Jong UwUn (@KawaiiJongUwUn) lists 97 other indicators in this source. 2 are shown, chosen across types.

All 98 indicators from this source

Cited by the same report: gitlab.com/smith0811

Chollima Hunter lists 2 other indicators in this source.

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