`johnpatch0502@outlook.com`

johnpatch0502@outlook.com is an email address 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 Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group), Chollima Hunter, tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) and Chollima Group. The earliest of those reports is dated 2025-02-18 and the most recent 2026-10-18.

The reporting files it under the persona Russell Hieu, alongside 9 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.

email address IT Worker Fraud CURATED

First seen 2025-02-18 · last seen 2026-10-18

Sources

Entry in the lazarus.group DPRK IT-worker registry, which asserts that these accounts belong to one operator. The registry publishes no methodology, so this is recorded as its claim and not as a finding of this site. Its evidence links and its cross-references to other operators in the same registry are deliberately not reproduced as indicators.
lazarus.group/team/russell-hieu — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “Russell Hieu / Shota Nakamura / Nakamura Shota / John Patch / Helme0315 / johnpatch0502 / 0xRUS38 / 0xdoccer / russellhieu / 0xhawkk” · pulled 2026-09-09
Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for published persona addresses and reading which account GitHub attributes the commits to. GitHub credits a commit to the account that has the signing address registered and verified, which only the holder of the mailbox can do, so an attributed account is one the address's holder controls, whichever repository the commits sit in and whenever the address was added. Counts are of the commits GitHub's search returns, up to 100. GitHub attributes 100 commits signed johnpatch0502@outlook.com, an address the lazarus.group registry publishes for this persona, to the login johnpatch0502, which no longer resolves.
github.com/johnpatch0502 — Chollima Hunter · under “Russell Hieu” · pulled 2026-09-24
Nearby text:

…Nakamura Shota - John Patch - Helme0315 - johnpatch0502 - 0xRUS38 - 0xdoccer - russellhieu - johnpatch0502@outlook.com - russellhieu@outlook.com - github.com/Helme0315 • [Archive](https://archive.ph/vgsFX) - 0x97467ea9BeF1c925E9D8e2E65932d066869b7f13 -…
DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Russell Hieu / Shota Nakamura” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-08-30
Nearby text:

…ail.com lainhong1205@gmail.com jenson.collins@hotmail.com sunshineseo0614@gmail.com watanabeatari@gmail.com sunmoonlee.19900113@outlook.com johnpatch0502@outlook.com eliteknightgold@outlook.com superdev0292@gmail.com jamescharlie94@outlook.com denisleedragon@outlook.com ivandimov921016@outlook.com ZachX…
From Vientiane to Vladivostok — Chollima Group · under “Conclusion:” · published 2025-02-18 · pulled 2026-10-18

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