Hackers steal over $615 million from Ronin network supporting popular game Axie Infinity

Today, the developer behind a popular game called Axie Infinity announced that it suffered a serious breach of its Ronin cryptocurrency side-chain. The malicious actor used “hacked private keys” to break into Sky Mavis’s Ronin validator network. The hacker stole no less than 173,600 ETH ($586 million as of writing…