Cryptocurrency exchange employee jailed for selling military secrets to North Korea in exchange for Bitcoin

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According to Techub News, DLNews reported that the South Korean Supreme Court has ruled that North Korean hackers paid an employee of an online exchange $487,000 worth of Bitcoin to "recruit" a South Korean military officer to steal military secrets. The officer also received $33,500 worth of Bitcoin in return, according to the South Korean newspaper *Daily News*. The officer was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $35,000 for violating the Military Secrets Protection Act. Meanwhile, the exchange employee was convicted of violating the National Security Act.

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