Axie Co-Founder’s Personal Accounts Breached for $8M, Ronin Bridge Unaffected

cryptonews.com:

Jeff “Jihoz” Zirlin, co-founder of Axie Infinity, experienced a security breach in two of his personal Ethereum addresses on Ronin, resulted in an $8 million loss.

The web3 security firm Ancilia, Inc. first alerted Ronin Network about the unusual withdrawal of over 2,790 Ethereum. The crypto was withdrawn to three addresses and immediately deposited to Tornado.

“Looks like not an exploit to the bridge, the message[s] are signed correctly, more likely a private key leaked,” said Ancilia.

Jihoz soon confirmed the breach through a personal statement on social media. He emphasized that the attack targeted only his personal accounts and did not impact the Ronin blockchain or its operations.

This has been a tough morning for me. 

Two of my addresses have been compromised.

The attack is limited to my personal accounts, and has nothing to do with validation or operations of the Ronin chain.

Additionally, the leaked keys have nothing to do with Sky Mavis operations.…

— Jihoz.ron