Polymarket Had to Pause Trading After Hackers Stole $2.7M from the Platform

Polymarket was just hit by hackers, who are said to have siphoned roughly $2.7 million from hundreds of accounts on the platform. Polymarket had to temporarily cancel trading due to the attack, although it has since resumed operation. Experts Say Hackers Stole Millions Reports say that Polymarket was hacked on October 29 when a third-party software compromised the platform, affecting hundreds of users. The hack targeted the Polymarket.com crypto-based exchange instead of the company’s US-facing platform. As it turned out, hackers had tampered with the website’s JavaScript code, affecting how traders interacted with the site, without them even realizing it.