Security News > 2022 > April > FBI links largest crypto hack ever to Lazarus state hackers
The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned the address that received the cryptocurrency stolen in the largest cryptocurrency hack ever, the hack of Axie Infinity's Ronin network bridge.
Blockchain data platform Chainalysis first spotted that a new ETH address added by OFAC to the SDN list as part of a Lazarus Group update was also used in March to collect the ETH and USDC tokens stolen in the Ronin hack.
According to Sky Mavis, the Federal Bureau of Investigation now attributes the attack to the North Korean-backed Lazarus Group hacking group.
This attack is the largest crypto hack in history, with the previous most significant theft of cryptocurrency being the $611 million Poly Network hack from August 2021.
The Lazarus Group is a North Korean military hacking group active for more than a decade, since at least 2009.
The US Treasury sanctioned three DPRK-sponsored hacking groups in September 2019.
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