Polymarket hack may have drained close to $3 million from user wallets

https://www.techspot.com/news/112912-polymarket-hack-may-have-drained-close-3-million.html

The prediction market platform said the incident took place on Thursday morning and affected a "small number of users."

A compromised third-party vendor allegedly let attackers inject a malicious frontend script

... Other investigators put the damage at close to $3 million, with Specter claiming that funds were drained from at least 11 victim wallets holding PUSD, Polymarket's stablecoin used for trading on the platform.

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ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 66d

Good, it was a gamble to use the service to begin with. Took a gamble and lost.

KingKong33@lemmy.ml · 20 pts · 66d

Prediction markets are pure scams. Fucking stop using it dumbass motherfuckers.

baggachipz@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 66d

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 66d

Oh, no! Greedy stupid people got scammed! AGAIN!

db2@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 66d

Boo hoo. So sad.