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https://github.com/johnpatch0502

https://github.com/johnpatch0502 is a GitHub account that one published source reports in connection with IT Worker Fraud activity, which public reporting attributes to North Korea (DPRK). It is cited here from Chollima Hunter. The report is dated 2026-09-24.

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.

github profile IT Worker Fraud CURATED removed checked 2026-09-30

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

Source

  • 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

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Same persona record: Russell Hieu

Other identifiers the reporting files under the same persona; 8 of 9 are shown.

All 9 on the Russell Hieu page

Cited by the same report: github.com/johnpatch0502

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