Pak Jin Myong

Also reported as: EcomdevStar

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, Pak Jin Myong. 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 2025-07-23 · last reported 2026-09-24

Profiles and evidence

Identifiers attributed to this persona

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

IndicatorTypeAccount status
Pak Jin Myong alias —
ecomdevstar@gmail.com email address —
https://github.com/ecomdevstar github profile removed checked 2026-09-30
https://medium.com/@ecomdevstar medium account not checked
https://quora.com/profile/ecomdev-star quora account not checked
live:.cid.2e453cf6e44737af skype account not checked
https://x.com/ecomdevstar x account not checked

Pak Jin Myong

alias IT Worker Fraud CURATED

First seen 2025-07-23 · last seen 2026-09-24

Sources

  • x.com/browsercookies/status/1947855992513044595 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) · under “Pak Jin Myong / EcomdevStar” · published 2025-07-23 · pulled 2026-08-30
  • Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for published persona addresses and reading which account GitHub attributes the commits to. GitHub credits a commit to the account that has the signing address registered and verified, which only the holder of the mailbox can do, so an attributed account is one the address's holder controls, whichever repository the commits sit in and whenever the address was added. Counts are of the commits GitHub's search returns, up to 100. GitHub attributes 30 commits signed ecomdevstar@gmail.com, an address browsercookies publishes for this persona, to the login ecomdevstar, which no longer resolves.
    github.com/ecomdevstar — Chollima Hunter · under “Pak Jin Myong” · pulled 2026-09-24

ecomdevstar@gmail.com

email address IT Worker Fraud CURATED

First seen 2025-07-23 · last seen 2026-09-24

Sources

  • x.com/browsercookies/status/1947855992513044595 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) · under “Pak Jin Myong / EcomdevStar” · published 2025-07-23 · pulled 2026-08-30
  • Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for published persona addresses and reading which account GitHub attributes the commits to. GitHub credits a commit to the account that has the signing address registered and verified, which only the holder of the mailbox can do, so an attributed account is one the address's holder controls, whichever repository the commits sit in and whenever the address was added. Counts are of the commits GitHub's search returns, up to 100. GitHub attributes 30 commits signed ecomdevstar@gmail.com, an address browsercookies publishes for this persona, to the login ecomdevstar, which no longer resolves.
    github.com/ecomdevstar — Chollima Hunter · under “Pak Jin Myong” · pulled 2026-09-24

https://github.com/ecomdevstar

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

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

Source

  • Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for published persona addresses and reading which account GitHub attributes the commits to. GitHub credits a commit to the account that has the signing address registered and verified, which only the holder of the mailbox can do, so an attributed account is one the address's holder controls, whichever repository the commits sit in and whenever the address was added. Counts are of the commits GitHub's search returns, up to 100. GitHub attributes 30 commits signed ecomdevstar@gmail.com, an address browsercookies publishes for this persona, to the login ecomdevstar, which no longer resolves.
    github.com/ecomdevstar — Chollima Hunter · under “Pak Jin Myong” · pulled 2026-09-24

https://medium.com/@ecomdevstar

medium account IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

First seen 2025-07-23 · last seen 2025-07-23

Source

https://quora.com/profile/ecomdev-star

quora account IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

First seen 2025-07-23 · last seen 2025-07-23

Source

live:.cid.2e453cf6e44737af

skype account IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

First seen 2025-07-24 · last seen 2025-07-24

Source

https://x.com/ecomdevstar

x account IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

First seen 2025-07-23 · last seen 2025-07-23

Source

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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. Pak Jin Myong as the name of the operator is the cited researcher’s assertion, repeated here as their claim.