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	"title": "A hacker stole $625 million from the blockchain behind NFT game Axie Infinity",
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	"plain_text": "A hacker stole $625 million from the blockchain behind NFT game\r\nAxie Infinity\r\nBy Adi Robertson, Corin Faife\r\nPublished: 2022-03-29 · Archived: 2026-04-05 17:31:21 UTC\r\nRoughly $625 million worth of cryptocurrency has been stolen from Ronin, the blockchain underlying popular\r\ncrypto game Axie Infinity. Ronin and Axie Infinity operator Sky Mavis revealed the breach on Tuesday and froze\r\ntransactions on the Ronin bridge, which allows depositing and withdrawing funds from the company’s blockchain.\r\nSky Mavis says it’s working with law enforcement to recover 173,600 Ethereum (currently worth around $600\r\nmillion) and 25.5 million USDC (a cryptocurrency pegged to the US dollar) from the culprit, who withdrew it\r\nfrom the network on March 23rd. The attack focused on the bridge to Sky Mavis’ Ronin blockchain, an\r\nintermediary between Axie Infinity and other cryptocurrency blockchains like Ethereum. Users could deposit\r\nEthereum or USDC to Ronin, then purchase non-fungible token items or in-game currency, or they could sell their\r\nin-game assets and withdraw the money.\r\nAccording to Sky Mavis, an attacker used hacked private security keys to compromise the network nodes that\r\nvalidate transfers to and from the Ronin blockchain. That let the attacker quietly withdraw large quantities of\r\nEthereum and USDC. The transfer was discovered today — nearly a week later — when another user attempted to\r\nwithdraw 5,000 Ethereum through the bridge.\r\n“As we’ve witnessed, Ronin is not immune to exploitation”\r\nSky Mavis says the “axie” NFT tokens players must buy to access Axie Infinity haven’t been compromised, nor\r\nhave the SLP and AXS in-game cryptocurrencies used in battling and breeding the pokémon-like cartoon axolotls.\r\n(Disclosure: Adi purchased three axies for a total of $105 last month in order to report on the game; axies\r\ncurrently sell starting at around $25 apiece.)\r\nSource: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/29/23001620/sky-mavis-axie-infinity-ronin-blockchain-validation-defi-hack-nft\r\nhttps://www.theverge.com/2022/3/29/23001620/sky-mavis-axie-infinity-ronin-blockchain-validation-defi-hack-nft\r\nPage 1 of 1",
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