Polymarket resumed trading after a halt of about one hour following a reported attack, according to monitoring cited by Odaily and Bitcoin News. The attacker was said to have exploited still-active user sessions, allowing positions to be sold directly through the Polymarket system and funds to be withdrawn. The incident was reportedly linked to a compromise involving a DebugBear website performance monitoring script. That script was said to have been replaced with malicious code, which users’ browsers treated as trusted. After services came back online, Polymarket said it would compensate affected users. The case has also been referred to law enforcement authorities in the United Kingdom. No additional figures on losses or the number of affected users were disclosed in the source material.
Polymarket resumed trading after a halt of roughly one hour following a reported attack, according to Bitcoin News monitoring cited by Odaily.
The attacker was said to have exploited user sessions that were still active, using the Polymarket system to sell users’ positions directly and withdraw funds.
The incident was reportedly traced to a compromise of a DebugBear website performance monitoring script. The script was said to have been replaced with malicious code, and users’ browsers treated it as trusted code.
After trading resumed, Polymarket said it would compensate affected users. The matter has been referred to law enforcement in the United Kingdom.
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