Some of the stolen crypto assets from one of the biggest heists have been recovered.
pinned the theft of more than $600 million in cryptocurrency to the North Korean hacking group Lazarus.
Axie Infinity, which has 2.8 million daily active players, allows users to earn money by collecting, trading and playing with virtual creatures called Axies. Players have traded approximately $3.6 billion on its in-house marketplace prior to the hack Binance discovered the stolen assets by literally following the money through a series of moves made by the hackers.
The crypto was discovered in 86 different accounts on Binance’s exchange, the firm’s chief executive officer, Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, said in a tweet. The moving of roughly 56,200 Ether, or about $170 million worth of stolen cryptocurrencies were discovered this past week moved out of the main address on the Ethereum blockchain used by the perpetrators, blockchain data shows.
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