{"id":74219,"date":"2023-02-16T17:42:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T15:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=74219"},"modified":"2025-09-09T18:47:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:47:26","slug":"norwegian-authorities-seize-5-9-million-stolen-from-axie-infinitys-ronin-sidechain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/norwegian-authorities-seize-5-9-million-stolen-from-axie-infinitys-ronin-sidechain\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian authorities seize $5.9 million stolen from Axie Infinity&#8217;s Ronin sidechain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian law enforcement seized 60 million kroner ($5.9 million) stolen from the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-axie-infinity-axs\">Axie Infinity<\/a> sidechain, Ronin. <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.okokrim.no\/rekordhoegt-kryptobeslag-i-axie-saka.6585492-549344.html\\\">As reported by<\/a> the National Authority for Investigation of Economic and Environmental Crime said.<\/p>\n<p>Together with the FBI, investigators tracked most of the funds.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said it was the largest cryptocurrency seizure initiated by Norwegian police.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2022, North Korean hackers from the Lazarus Group exploited a vulnerability in the Ronin sidechain and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ronin-the-ethereum-sidechain-hacked-attacker-siphons-625-million\">withdrew<\/a> crypto assets worth about $625 million. The majority of the funds were laundered through the Tornado Cash mixer, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/us-sanctions-tornado-cash-the-ethereum-mixer\">which was later sanctioned by the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In September, law enforcement, with the assistance of the blockchain analytics company Chainalysis <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/chainalysis-helps-authorities-seize-30m-of-ronin-hack%e2%80%91related-cryptocurrency\">seized more than $30 million<\/a> in the stolen cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>The Ronin network was offline for several months. Its restart <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ronin-sidechain-relaunch-what-happened\">took place in late June<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian law enforcement seized 60 million kroner ($5.9 million) stolen from the Axie Infinity-linked Ronin sidechain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1581,1153,1498,1359],"class_list":["post-74219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-axie-infinity","tag-confiscation","tag-norway","tag-ronin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74221,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74219\/revisions\/74221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}