Ascension Health unknowingly hired foreign nationals with ties to North Korea for remote IT work, sending millions of revenue overseas in a sprawling fraud scheme that helped the isolated country fund its nuclear we-pons program, the Justice Department alleged Thursday. A woman in Arizona was arrested. So was a man in Ukraine. Four accused co-conspirators are at large. “North Korea has we-ponized its tech talent and created the ultimate insider threat,” said Michael Barnhart, an analyst at Google’s Mandiant intelligence division. With this story breaking in the Wall Street Journal, the future career path of Ascension Health's IT leadership appears uncertain. The oversight that allowed such a significant breach raises serious questions about their capability to lead the healthcare organization. It seems likely that there will be calls for a change in leadership to restore confidence and ensure such vulnerabilities are addressed.
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