North Korea selects 200 top middle school students yearly to train as state hackers, defectors say

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North Korea rewards elite hackers with Pyongyang apartments of up to 132 square metres, dollar bonuses of up to 30 per cent of heist profits, foreign travel, party membership and elite marriages, defectors say. Selection starts at ages 11-12, with 150-200 students chosen yearly; top performers enter military cyber units around 17. The programme, employing roughly 8,400 people, evolved from gambling websites to the US$6.3 billion Binance hack attributed to TraderTraitor. Workers reportedly rely heavily on AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude, while enduring surveillance and 10-hour-plus days.

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