Christina Marie Chapman pleaded guilty in Washington, D.C. to helping overseas IT workers pose as U.S. citizens and residents to obtain remote jobs at more than 300 U.S. companies. Prosecutors said she hosted company laptops at her Arizona home to make the workers appear U.S.-based, while stolen identities were used for job applications, payroll, tax reporting, and DHS-related submissions. The scheme generated more than $17.1 million for Chapman and North Korea-linked workers, compromised more than 70 U.S. identities, and gave the workers access to internal company systems. The case is part of the DPRK IT-worker threat pattern in which fraud, identity theft, and remote-work access create both revenue and potential operational risk.