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Hakeo Hiratani (CA)

A fabricated professional identity used in the DPRK remote IT-worker scheme. Most of what follows is transcribed from the cited post, in which a named researcher attributes these accounts to a single operator, Hakeo Hiratani (CA). The attribution is theirs, not this site's.

The remainder was read by this site from the account itself and is cited to the page and date it was read.

IT Worker Fraud First reported 2026-09-23 · last reported 2026-09-24

Identifiers attributed to this persona

3 indicators the sources below record for this operator, each with its sources.

IndicatorTypeAccount status
hakeohiratani06@gmail.com email address —
https://github.com/devhakeo github profile live checked 2026-09-30
+14326141112 phone number —

hakeohiratani06@gmail.com

email address IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

First seen 2026-09-23 · last seen 2026-09-23

Source

  • Hayden McKenzie publishes this as one of the aliases recovered from a DPRK IT worker cell's own files, on a per-alias record that gives its location as Kingsville, Ontario and the role it presents as Senior Full stack & Blockchain Developer, and the contact details above. Across the site's records, +14326141112 also appears on the record for Jeremy Michael. The record was not on the site when this one first read it on 22 September 2026 and appeared alongside the report The Women Behind North Korea's IT Worker Operations, published on 23 September, so that is the date cited. 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+(ca) — Hayden McKenzie · under “Hakeo Hiratani (CA)” · pulled 2026-09-23

https://github.com/devhakeo

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

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

Source

  • Read 2026-09-24 by searching GitHub commits for the persona's address. devhakeo, created in October 2023, displays the name Hakeo Hiratani and the Kingsville, Ontario address the CA persona gives. Its repositories hold commits signed by the USA persona's address and by alexandersimmons19910219@gmail.com, an Alexander Simmons address.
    github.com/devhakeo — Chollima Hunter · under “Hakeo Hiratani (CA)” · pulled 2026-09-24

+14326141112

phone number IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

Also listed under Jeremy Michael — this value’s page names all of them.

First seen 2026-08-19 · last seen 2026-09-23

Line type

Line typeVoIP
CarrierSKYPE COMMUNICATIONS
Rate centreODESSA, TX

phonevalidator.com labels the line LANDLINE while naming Skype Communications as the carrier in the same row. The carrier is an interconnected VoIP provider, which is what the classification here follows.

Looked up 2026-09-30 at phonevalidator.com. This is a lookup of the line itself. A VoIP line is not evidence on its own.

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 Nyssa, Oregon, the role it presents as Senior Full stack & Blockchain Developer, and the contact details above. The address is the one point where two researchers meet on the same value. Narcass3 published it in May 2025 alongside the Telegram handle jeremymichael0709 and the X account jeremymichael79, addressing that account as a DPRK operator; it reaches this site again fifteen months later as the contact address of an alias Hayden McKenzie tracks independently. 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. When the site published its fourth report on 23 September 2026 the record grew by two mailboxes, a number and a LinkedIn profile drawn from the persona's own working files, cited to that date. Across the site's records, +14326141112 also appears on the record for Hakeo Hiratani (CA). 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/jeremy+michael — Hayden McKenzie · under “Jeremy Michael” · published 2026-08-19 · pulled 2026-09-22
  • Hayden McKenzie publishes this as one of the aliases recovered from a DPRK IT worker cell's own files, on a per-alias record that gives its location as Kingsville, Ontario and the role it presents as Senior Full stack & Blockchain Developer, and the contact details above. Across the site's records, +14326141112 also appears on the record for Jeremy Michael. The record was not on the site when this one first read it on 22 September 2026 and appeared alongside the report The Women Behind North Korea's IT Worker Operations, published on 23 September, so that is the date cited. 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+(ca) — Hayden McKenzie · under “Hakeo Hiratani (CA)” · pulled 2026-09-23

Sources

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Disclaimer An entry here is not proof of DPRK affiliation or wrongdoing. A listed name, account or address may belong to an uninvolved person, so each entry is a lead to verify independently. What inclusion means. Hakeo Hiratani (CA) as the name of the operator is the cited researcher’s assertion, repeated here as their claim.