It’s better to double check the offer letter you’ve been waiting for.
In March this year, $620 million worth of cryptocurrency was stolen from the online game Axie Infinity. While investigative agencies have not fully revealed how this was done, it appears that it all began with a fake job offer.
Developed by Vietnamese studio Sky Mavis, Axie Infinity is a strategy-based online video game that allows users to grow and trade digital pets called Axies. The game uses Ethereum-based cryptocurrencies in its in-game economy. At its peak, it boasted 2.7 million daily active users and $214 million in weekly trading volume, In March, hackers gained access to the Ronin blockchain that Axie Infinity used for its cryptocurrency transactions and made away with 173,600 units of ether and 25.
Finally, a senior Mavis engineer was offered a job with an extremely generous compensation package and a PDF copy of the offer letter was sent to the employee, who downloaded it.
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