Polymarket halts international trading after third-party compromise
Original title: Polymarket 1h halt after vendor compromise; affected users will be 'made whole'
Trading on Polymarket.com resumed after nearly an hour; the US platform was not affected and the company promised reimbursement.
Polymarket halted trading on its international platform Thursday for nearly an hour after what it called a compromise of a third-party provider, then said it had fixed the issue and referred the matter to British law enforcement. It said the attack appeared to come from the United Kingdom and that affected traders would be reimbursed, without confirming user losses. A person familiar with the incident said access came through DebugBear software; DebugBear separately reported an ongoing security incident. The Block, citing Arkham, reported about $2.65 million taken, a figure Polymarket declined to address.
Unconfirmed: Wallet drains, the $2.65 million loss, and DebugBear as the access path are unconfirmed by Polymarket.
- Trading restarted at 3 p.m. ET after nearly an hour offline.
- Discord users reported drained wallets, which Polymarket has not confirmed.
- Polymarket said one third-party provider was compromised.
- DebugBear posted about an ongoing security incident around 2 p.m. ET.
- Polymarket declined to comment on the $2.65 million figure or attack details.
Impact: Possible theft of cryptocurrency from user wallets
| Product | Affected |
|---|---|
| DebugBear | — |
- Vendors
- DebugBear
- Products
- Polymarket
- Victims
- Polymarket
- Countries
- United Kingdom
From the original article
2 min read at nbcnews.com
Prediction markets platform Polymarket was forced to halt trading on its international platform Thursday for nearly an hour because of what it said was a compromise of third-party software. There were also unconfirmed reports from users on Polymarket’s Discord channel who said their wallets had been drained.
By theanonymousone · nbcnews.com
A short excerpt; the article and its images belong to the publisher. Summary, key facts and assessment above are AI-written from the article and can be wrong.