Leaderboard / Case No. FB-2025-08-27-anthropic-north-korea-it-workers
North Korean operatives used Claude to invent professional personas, pass technical interviews and do the day-to-day work of remote engineering jobs at Western tech firms, earning salaries that fund the regime in breach of sanctions.
Score breakdown
| Component | Value | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|
| Sentence-Years | 40 | 50 USC 1705, 18 USC 1343 |
| × Contribution | 0.5 | Wrote the content: Anthropic says operators used Claude to "generate convincing professional backgrounds", tailor resumes, prepare interview answers, get "real-time assistance during coding assessments" and, once hired, to "deliver actual technical work" (about 80% of their usage); humans held the jobs, so this is written content. |
| × Blast Radius | 1.5 | The public: The scheme exists to "evade international sanctions and generate profit for the regime", which is a crime against society at large, so the victim is the public; the deceived employers are listed as a second victim. |
| × Legal status | 1 | Crime. |
| + Tradecraft | 0 | None of the rubric's intrusion techniques apply to employment fraud. |
| + Guardrails | 0 | Guardrails intact: The report describes no jailbreak or safety bypass; the model was used as shipped. |
| + Dwell Time | 0 | Anthropic gives no dates for the activity, so date_precision is before with the report's publication date; dwell is counted from that latest possible date (0 days) and never inflated. Anthropic found the accounts itself, building on public reporting and threat-intelligence sharing. |
| Total | 30 |
Charges the human could face
50 USC 1705Up to 20 years18 USC 1343Up to 20 years