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North Korea trains child prodigies as elite crypto thieves, rewards top hackers with apartments and cash

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North Korea trains child prodigies as elite crypto thieves, rewards top hackers with apartments and cash

North Korea rewards ⁠its top hackers, tasked with heists like the Binance crypto hack that netted a cool US$6.3 ⁠billion, with perks such as spacious apartments in the capital and huge hard currency awards in return for ⁠gruelling hours of work. Leader Kim Jong-un has assembled an army of…

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