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

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