Josiah Kopacz
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, Josiah Kopacz. The attribution is theirs, not this site's.
Identifiers attributed to this persona
4 indicators the source attributes to this operator, each with its sources.
| Indicator | Type | Account status |
|---|---|---|
Josiah Kopacz |
alias | |
josiahkopacz1@gmail.com |
email address | |
kopaczjosiah@gmail.com |
email address | |
+18065774400 |
phone number |
Josiah Kopacz
alias IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
Source
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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 Lubbock, Texas and the role it presents as Senior Full Stack Engineer, and the contact details above. The record adds a mailbox from the persona's working files. 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/josiah+kopacz — Hayden McKenzie
josiahkopacz1@gmail.com
email address IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
Source
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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 Lubbock, Texas and the role it presents as Senior Full Stack Engineer, and the contact details above. The record adds a mailbox from the persona's working files. 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/josiah+kopacz — Hayden McKenzie
kopaczjosiah@gmail.com
email address IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
Source
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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 Lubbock, Texas and the role it presents as Senior Full Stack Engineer, and the contact details above. The record adds a mailbox from the persona's working files. 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/josiah+kopacz — Hayden McKenzie
+18065774400
phone number IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
Line type
| Line type | VoIP |
|---|---|
| Carrier | SKYPE COMMUNICATIONS |
| Rate centre | LUBBOCK, TX |
Source
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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 Lubbock, Texas and the role it presents as Senior Full Stack Engineer, and the contact details above. The record adds a mailbox from the persona's working files. 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/josiah+kopacz — Hayden McKenzie
Sources
- haydenmckenzie.com/aliases/josiah+kopacz — Hayden McKenzie