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Norwegian police seized a record 60 million kroner ($5.9 million) in cryptocurrency linked to a heist of roughly $600 million last March that the US authorities say were stolen by the North Korean hacker group Lazarus.
The confiscation of the funds stolen from a blockchain network connected to Axie Infinity, a popular video game, is also among the largest cash seizures made in the Nordic country, Okokrim, Norway’s unit for fighting economic and environmental crimes, said in an emailed statement on Thursday.
The Axie Infinity theft was among the biggest crypto heists last year when crypto thefts hit a record $3.8 billion as sanctions on North Korea drove a surge in suspected hacking by the Asian nation.
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