NiceHash reported that a U.S. federal indictment charged three North Korean RGB-linked programmers over a broad hacking conspiracy involving destructive attacks, theft, and extortion exceeding $1.3 billion. The article ties the indictment to the 2017 NiceHash compromise, in which $75 million in cryptocurrency was stolen, and identifies the alleged units as known in the security community as Lazarus Group and APT38. It also notes additional alleged thefts from an Indonesian cryptocurrency company in 2018 and a New York financial services company in 2020 involving the malicious CryptoNeuro Trader application as a backdoor. NiceHash says the indictment disproved claims that the 2017 incident was an inside job and states it repaid stolen bitcoins over time.