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Ryan White

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, Ryan White. 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

LinkedIn accounts

Identifiers reported alongside

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

IndicatorTypeAccount status
Ryan White alias —
ryanwhite11391@gmail.com email address —
https://github.com/ryan900725 github profile removed checked 2026-09-30
+19783919978 phone number —

Ryan White

alias IT Worker Fraud CURATED

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

Sources

  • 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 Altoona, Iowa and the role it presents as Senior .NET Full Stack Engineer, and the contact details above. The record adds a LinkedIn profile from the persona's working files. Across the site's records, +19783919978 also appears on the record for Larry Levine. 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/ryan+white — Hayden McKenzie · under “Ryan White” · pulled 2026-09-23
  • Read 2026-09-24 by searching GitHub commits for the persona's address. GitHub credited commits signed ryanwhite11391@gmail.com, the persona's address, to Ryan900725. The account has since been deleted.
    github.com/search?q=author-email%3Aryanwhite11391%40gmail.com&type=commits — Chollima Hunter · under “Ryan White” · pulled 2026-09-24

ryanwhite11391@gmail.com

email address IT Worker Fraud CURATED

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

Sources

  • 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 Altoona, Iowa and the role it presents as Senior .NET Full Stack Engineer, and the contact details above. The record adds a LinkedIn profile from the persona's working files. Across the site's records, +19783919978 also appears on the record for Larry Levine. 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/ryan+white — Hayden McKenzie · under “Ryan White” · pulled 2026-09-23
  • Read 2026-09-24 by searching GitHub commits for the persona's address. GitHub credited commits signed ryanwhite11391@gmail.com, the persona's address, to Ryan900725. The account has since been deleted.
    github.com/search?q=author-email%3Aryanwhite11391%40gmail.com&type=commits — Chollima Hunter · under “Ryan White” · pulled 2026-09-24

https://github.com/ryan900725

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

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

Source

+19783919978

phone number IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

Also listed under Larry Levine — this value’s page names all of them.

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

Line type

Line typeVoIP
CarrierSKYPE P2P
Rate centreAYER, MA

phonevalidator.com labels the line LANDLINE while naming Skype P2P 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 Houston, Texas, the role it presents as Blockchain/Go Software Engineer, and the contact details above. The record is one of two tied to the second report, Dissecting the Identity Lifecycle, and when first read the only detail it carried beyond the contact lines was a personal site on a free Vercel subdomain, which answered on 22 September 2026. The reports describe that hosting as what the operation's own manual recommends for a persona's storefront. 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 number, a LinkedIn profile, a GitHub account and a Telegram account drawn from the persona's own working files, cited to that date. Across the site's records, +19783919978 also appears on the record for Ryan White. 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/larry+levine — Hayden McKenzie · under “Larry Levine” · published 2026-09-23 · 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 Altoona, Iowa and the role it presents as Senior .NET Full Stack Engineer, and the contact details above. The record adds a LinkedIn profile from the persona's working files. Across the site's records, +19783919978 also appears on the record for Larry Levine. 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/ryan+white — Hayden McKenzie · under “Ryan White” · 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. Ryan White as the name of the operator is the cited researcher’s assertion, repeated here as their claim.