Polymarket to Refund Users After Hackers Steal $3M in Frontend Attack

U.S. senators have urged the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to investigate Polymarket over allegations that the prediction market platform used deceptive advertising to reach American users despite restricting access in the country. According to a letter obtained by The Wall…

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Polymarket has confirmed that attackers compromised a third party vendor and used the access to inject malicious code into the platform’s frontend, leading to a phishing attack that drained an estimated $2.94 million from users. Polymarket disclosed on X that…

Polymarket said it contained the compromise and removed the affected dependency after attackers injected a malicious script into its frontend.

The platform for predicting market users impacted by a website exploit that led to the theft of about $3 million in cryptocurrency assets will receive full reimbursement from Polymarket. The claim is that, instead of an issue with the underlying architecture of the platform, the incident was due to malware