The U.S. Treasury Department alleged the North Korean hacking radical called Lazarus is tied to a more-than-$600 cardinal theft of cryptocurrency from the Axie Infinity-tied Ronin bridge.
The Treasury Department added an Ethereum code to its sanctions database on Thursday. Wallet profiler Nansen had labeled the sanctioned code arsenic a “Ronin Bridge Exploiter” erstwhile checked by CoinDesk Thursday. It held 148,000 ETH astatine work time. CoinDesk independently confirmed that the wallet is tied to the Ronin exploit.
Spokespeople for the Treasury Department did not instantly instrumentality requests for comment.
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