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Hackers steal $540m in crypto from Axie Infinity game

Theft is one of the largest in the crypto sector’s 13-year history

A cryptocurrency startup that operates a popular online game called Axie Infinity said on 29 March that hackers had stolen more than $500m worth of cryptocurrency.

Axie Infinity publisher Sky Mavis said on 23 March that hackers had infiltrated a part of its Ronin Network, which the game runs on. The infiltrators got access to accounts holding cryptocurrencies and drained 173,600 ether and 25.5 million of the stablecoin USDC.

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