Kyle Johnson

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, Kyle Johnson. The attribution is theirs, not this site's.

IT Worker Fraud First reported 2026-08-19 · last reported 2026-09-23

LinkedIn accounts

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-johnson-836317331/

removed checked 2026-09-24

Indicator page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-johnson-836317331/

linkedin profile IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST removed checked 2026-09-24

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

Source

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 Bloomington, Illinois, the role it presents as Senior .NET Software Engineer, and the contact details above. 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 a LinkedIn profile drawn from the persona's own working files, cited to that date. 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/kyle+johnson — Hayden McKenzie · under “Kyle Johnson” · published 2026-09-23 · pulled 2026-09-22

Identifiers reported alongside

3 indicators the source attributes to this operator, each with its sources.

Indicator	Type	Account status
`Kyle Johnson`	alias	—
`kylejohnson89516@gmail.com`	email address	—
`+13098071516`	phone number	—

`Kyle Johnson`

alias IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

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

Source

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 Bloomington, Illinois, the role it presents as Senior .NET Software Engineer, and the contact details above. 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 a LinkedIn profile drawn from the persona's own working files, cited to that date. 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/kyle+johnson — Hayden McKenzie · under “Kyle Johnson” · published 2026-08-19 · pulled 2026-09-22

`kylejohnson89516@gmail.com`

email address IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

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

Source

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 Bloomington, Illinois, the role it presents as Senior .NET Software Engineer, and the contact details above. 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 a LinkedIn profile drawn from the persona's own working files, cited to that date. 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/kyle+johnson — Hayden McKenzie · under “Kyle Johnson” · published 2026-08-19 · pulled 2026-09-22

`+13098071516`

phone number IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

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

Line type

Line type	VoIP
Carrier	SKYPE COMMUNICATIONS
Rate centre	BLOOMINGTON, IL

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.

Source

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 Bloomington, Illinois, the role it presents as Senior .NET Software Engineer, and the contact details above. 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 a LinkedIn profile drawn from the persona's own working files, cited to that date. 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/kyle+johnson — Hayden McKenzie · under “Kyle Johnson” · published 2026-08-19 · pulled 2026-09-22

Sources

haydenmckenzie.com/aliases/kyle+johnson — Hayden McKenzie · under “Kyle Johnson” · published 2026-08-19 · pulled 2026-09-22

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