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Polymarket hack may have drained close to $3 million from user wallets (www.techspot.com)
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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 points 1 day ago

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