"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,

The fraud scheme stole 68 identities from victims in the U.S. and defrauded 309 American businesses and two international businesses.

The sentence is one of the largest handed down to a U.S. national for their role in the North Korean government-linked scheme.