North Korea Stole 100,000 Identities to Infiltrate Global Companies

IBM X-Force and Flare research reveals North Korea's remote IT worker program has deployed over 100,000 operatives across 40 countries using stolen and fabricated identities to infiltrate Western companies, generating ~$500M annually for the regime. Traditional HR screening fails because operatives use real stolen American identities that pass background checks, I-9 verification, and LinkedIn checks. The post argues this is an identity intelligence problem requiring digital footprint analysis — checking email history, cross-platform coherence, device fingerprints, and connections to known threat actor infrastructure — rather than document verification. Constella Hunter is presented as the tool for this investigation, enabling retrospective and continuous monitoring of contractor identities.