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FBI blames North Korea hackers for $620 million crypto theft

By Christopher Hutton
Published April 15, 2022 1:20pm ET
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FBI blames North Korea hackers for $620 million crypto theft
A North Korean flag flies above a CCTV surveillance camera attached on the entrance gate at the North Korean Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, March 13, 2017. Malaysia's health minister said Monday that the government will give relatives of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's estranged half brother two to three weeks to claim his body before deciding what to do with it. | (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Hackers from North Korea are suspected to be behind one of the largest thefts of crypto assets in history.

The FBI announced on Thursday that the Lazarus Group, a hacker group connected to the North Korean government, stole $620 million in assets from the Ronin blockchain on March 29.

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