Jiho Han
Also reported as: Han Jiho
A fabricated professional identity used in the DPRK remote IT-worker scheme. Everything below is transcribed from the cited post, in which a named researcher attributes these accounts to a single operator, Jiho Han. The attribution is theirs, not this site's.
The photograph the Rewards for Justice notice publishes for the alias Han Jiho, the only one of the four it shows a face for; the poster gives the other three as silhouettes. It is the image the State Department attaches to the alias, and whether it depicts the worker or a person whose identity was used is not something the notice says.
Identifiers attributed to this persona
2 indicators the source attributes to this operator, each with its sources.
Han Jiho
alias IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
Source
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The Rewards for Justice programme names this as one of the aliases under which North Korean IT workers obtained remote software and application development work at United States companies between about October 2020 and October 2023, using false identities belonging to more than sixty real United States persons, with Christina Chapman hosting their employer-issued laptops and handling their pay; it states the scheme generated at least $6.8 million for the DPRK and links the workers to the Munitions Industry Department. The notice publishes the alias and nothing else about it: no account, address or telephone number. It is an alias, so the real person whose name or details it may have been assembled from is not the worker. The notice publishes a photograph for this alias alone. The poster prints the names surname first, and that order is kept as an alias so either form finds the record.
rewardsforjustice.net/rewards/north-korean-information-technology-it-workers/ — Rewards for Justice, U.S. Department of State
Jiho Han
alias IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
Source
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The Rewards for Justice programme names this as one of the aliases under which North Korean IT workers obtained remote software and application development work at United States companies between about October 2020 and October 2023, using false identities belonging to more than sixty real United States persons, with Christina Chapman hosting their employer-issued laptops and handling their pay; it states the scheme generated at least $6.8 million for the DPRK and links the workers to the Munitions Industry Department. The notice publishes the alias and nothing else about it: no account, address or telephone number. It is an alias, so the real person whose name or details it may have been assembled from is not the worker. The notice publishes a photograph for this alias alone. The poster prints the names surname first, and that order is kept as an alias so either form finds the record.
rewardsforjustice.net/rewards/north-korean-information-technology-it-workers/ — Rewards for Justice, U.S. Department of State
Sources
- rewardsforjustice.net/rewards/north-korean-information-technology-it-workers/ — Rewards for Justice, U.S. Department of State