Park Jin Hyok

Park attended the Kim Chaek University of Technology in Pyongyang.[8] He has traveled to China in the past and conducted IT work for the North Korean company "Chosun Expo" in addition to activities conducted on behalf of North Korea's Reconnaissance General Bureau.[9][10]

FBI wanted notice

Park is a member of a North Korea's government-funded hacking team known as “Lazarus Group (or APT 38)” and worked for Chosun Expo Joint Venture (aka Korea Expo Joint Venture), a North Korean government front company, to support the North Korean government’s malicious cyber actions.[11][12] Chosun is affiliated with Lab 110, a component of North Korea's military intelligence. Expo Joint Venture had offices in China (PRC) and North Korea.[13][14]

In November 2014, the conspirators launched a destructive attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment in retaliation for the movie The Interview, a political action comedy film that depicted the assassination of the DPRK’s leader by a CIA spy. North Korea denied allegations of hacking.[15]

The United States Department of Justice has charged Park and other members of Lazarus group for the WannaCry ransomware attack of 2017,[16] a computer virus that used encryption to encrypt file on affected systems and affected many businesses throughout the world, including United Kingdom’s NHS, where nonfunctional computer systems led to thousands of appointments being canceled.[17]