Ethereum Privacy Layer Recruiter Claims to Have Interviewed North Korean Hacker

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Aztec Network growth lead Jonathan Wu claims he may have interviewed a North Korean hacker for a job at the Ethereum layer two (L2) privacy protocol.

North Korean hackers are notorious for pillaging billions of dollars from the cryptocurrency industry, particularly in DeFi, according to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI).

The latest hit involves the theft of $620 million from Axie Infinity’s Ronin Network bridge by North Korean-backed hacker group Lazarus, the FBI alleged.

Posting on Twitter, Wu laid out details about a job interview he had by video with one ‘Bobby Sierra,’ a Solidity engineer supposedly from Hong Kong. He found Sierra via jobs platform Greenhouse, claiming “6+ years of rich experience.”

But the character, believed to be from North Korea, could neither clearly describe his skillset nor explain projects he claimed to have previously worked on. For example, Sierra failed to clarify his alleged experience in F2Pool, one of the largest Bitcoin and Ethereum mining pools in the world.

Instead, he mentioned “completely random” DAO and NFT projects like BoredBunnies and MetaverseDAO. Sierra listed 12 GitHub commits over the previous 12 months, experience which is far from “rich” for a blockchain developer.

Source: https://beincrypto.com/ethereum-recruiter-claims-interviewed-north-korean-hacker-job/