`https://github.com/luckypenny1632333`

https://github.com/luckypenny1632333 is a GitHub account 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 Chollima Hunter and Kawaii-Jong-UwUn (GitHub research). The earliest of those reports is dated 2026-09-24 and the most recent 2026-10-18.

The reporting files it under the persona Steven Leal, alongside 21 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 live checked 2026-09-30

Listed as luckypenny1632333

First seen 2026-09-24 · last seen 2026-10-18

live checked 2026-09-30

The image is the avatar this account displays, not evidence of who operates it.

Sources

Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for every personal address this index transcribes from researchers' posts, and keeping the accounts whose own commits are signed with one. GitHub mints a noreply address from an account's immutable numeric id, in the form id+handle@users.noreply.github.com, so the former handles below are a matter of record. Counts of an account's own commits are over the 100 that GitHub's search returns for it. github.com/luckypenny1632333 is account id 177725156, created on 7 August 2024, display name Lucky Penny, bio Sr. Software Engineer, location Hong Kong. All 100 of its own commits in GitHub's search are signed stevenpiao0822@gmail.com, an address browsercookies gives for Steven Leal. Three commits in its repositories are signed alenschmitt415@gmail.com, which the account filed under Mark Santiago, github.com/marksantiago290, also commits with.
github.com/luckypenny1632333 — Chollima Hunter · under “Steven Leal” · pulled 2026-09-24
…* Profile photo matches marksantiago02 * Also used by Steven Leal * GitHub 3: https://github.com/luckypenny1632333 * Display Name: Lucky Penny * Also linked to BTC415 used by Steven Leal * Portfolio: https://marksantiago.top/ * Twitter:…
Post-Minions assessment — Kawaii-Jong-UwUn (GitHub research) · under “Mark Limuel Santiago” · published 2025-07-26 · pulled 2026-09-29

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Account analysis

Account created	2024-08-07
Repositories	18 original, 7 forked
History older than the account	4 repositories: `Bus-Management-System` (first commit 2021-05-07), `E-Shopit-Backend` (first commit 2022-12-27), `E-Shopit-Frontend` (first commit 2022-12-19), `TG-T2E_Ton-Bot` (first commit 2024-06-15)
Commits copied into others' repositories	0
Commit identities	2 addresses, 6 names; up to 6 names on one address; up to 2 addresses under one name

Commit addresses this index holds

From gh-fake-analyzer 1.0.2, the Ketman Project's GitHub analysis tool, run on 2026-10-06. These are signals: backdated history and several commit identities are common among ordinary developers too, and an account that shows none of them is not thereby cleared.

Related indicators

Same persona record: Steven Leal

Other identifiers the reporting files under the same persona; 8 of 21 are shown.

All 21 on the Steven Leal page

Cited by the same report: github.com/luckypenny1632333

Chollima Hunter lists 2 other indicators in this source.

Cited by the same report: Post-Minions assessment

Kawaii-Jong-UwUn (GitHub research) lists 41 other indicators in this source. 2 are shown, chosen across types.

All 42 indicators from this source