Norwegian police recover $5.9m crypto stolen by North Korea

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Norway finds a way to recover crypto North Korea pinched in Axie heist

Norwegian authorities announced on Thursday that they had recovered $5.9 million of cryptocurrency stolen in the Axie Infinity hack – an incident widely held to have been perpetrated by the Lazarus Group, which has links to North Korea.

"Økokrim are experts at following the money. This case shows that we are also good at following the money on the blockchain even though criminals use advanced techniques to avoid detection,"The agency said it would work with the owner of the Axie Infinity game, Sky Mavis, to return the funds to its victims.

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