A woman in Arizona was sentenced Thursday to more than 8 years in prison for orchestrating a complex fraud scheme to help North Korean cyber operatives pose as Americans and obtain remote IT jobs at hundreds of US companies,

"The impacted companies included a top-five major television network, a Silicon Valley technology company, an aerospace manufacturer, an American car maker, a luxury retail store, and a U.S media and entertainment company,

An Arizona woman has been sentenced to 8.5 years in federal prison for participating in a fraud scheme that helped give remote jobs to North Korean information technology specialists at over 300 companies in the United States,