A company's remote-working hire turned out to be in North Korea. He tried to hold it to ransom.

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Two women sit on a chair with national flags in front of the Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang, on Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020.
The FBI has previously said that there are thousands of North Korean IT workers posing as non-North Koreans to get remote jobs in the US.

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AMC's CEO thought he was texting naughty photos to a former ballerina fling. Then everything went haywire.

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Photo collage of Adam Aron with a woman and a burglar behind him
A monthslong extortion attempt for hundreds of thousands of dollars targeted AMC's CEO. He stood his ground.

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When Adam Aron's phone buzzed with a text from an unknown number in March 2022, he recognized the name of the sender: Mia.

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