Hacking News
Polymarket Pauses Trading Due to Security Incident
Polymarket, a prediction market, has suspended trading due to a security incident where assets were withdrawn from accounts without permission. The platform's status page shows a major outage and the exchange in cancel-only mode. One of its third-party providers was compromised, and the company is referring the matter to law enforcement. A wallet identified as the suspected attacker's holds about $2.65 million in POL, Polygon's native token, and has shown no activity in the last five minutes. Researchers found a script loaded from DebugBear, a web performance monitoring service, that attempts to sell users' positions and transfer assets.