Ronin, an Ethereum-linked sidechain developed by Axie Infinity, has confirmed a major security breach
In a recent blog post., the gaming-focused Ronin Network based on Axie Infinity, announced a loss of over $625 million in USDC and ETH.
Axie Infinity Ronin sidechain suffers a $625 million hack
Per the network’s post, Exploiters used hacked private keys to forge withdrawals on March 23. The breach, however, wasn’t discovered until Tuesday, when a user was unable to withdraw 5,000 ETH.
Ethereum and USDC deposits on Ronin have been drained from its bridge contract. Users, as of now, are unable to withdraw or deposit funds. The Ronin Bridge and Katana DEX, as a result, have been halted.
The Ronin bridge has been exploited for 173,600 Ethereum and 25.5M USDC.
The Ronin bridge and Katana Dex have been halted.
— Ronin (@Ronin_Network) March 29, 2022
Sky Mavis, the creator of Axie Infinity, said it is “committed to ensuring that all of the drained funds are recovered or reimbursed.”
“We are working with law enforcement officials, forensic cryptographers, and our investors to make sure that all funds are recovered or reimbursed,” the network said.
The project lost roughly $625 million (173,600 Ethereum tokens and 25.5 million USDC tokens) after Sky Mavis’s Ronin validator nodes and Axie DAO validator nodes were compromised drained by a malicious actor last week.
In August 2021, a hacker made $611 million mining the multi-chain DeFi protocol Poly Network. Most of the money has been returned. The attacker Ronin’s Ethereum address is a new one that transferred ETH from Binance a week ago. Etherscan records show that the attack took place last Wednesday. Most of the funds are still in the attacker’s address, although 6,250 ETH has been moved to many other addresses.
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