{"id":154965,"date":"2026-10-29T20:17:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T20:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=154965"},"modified":"2026-10-29T20:17:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T20:17:55","slug":"polymarket-trading-disrupted-after-users-report-2-6m-in-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=154965","title":{"rendered":"Polymarket Trading Disrupted After Users Report $2.6M in Losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Polymarket was forced to temporarily restrict trading on Thursday after a security incident reportedly drained millions of dollars from user accounts.<\/p>\n<p>The platform subsequently said it had identified and fixed the problem, which originated from a compromised external service rather than its core infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The first signs of potential trouble emerged hours ago when multiple users reported unauthorized activity on their Polymarket accounts.<\/p>\n<p>As the situation developed, the company put its international exchange into cancel-only mode, meaning users could remove existing orders but couldn\u2019t submit new ones or execute new trades. The team also paused Relayer activity while it investigated.<\/p>\n<p>Blockchain data tracked by Arkham <a href=\"https:\/\/arkm.com\/explorer\/address\/0x3F99139F1C5854bb628c2e576Aaf638e99dFfc18\">showed<\/a> a wallet believed to be linked to the attacker holding approximately $2.65 million worth of POL, following a series of USDC.e-to-POL swaps conducted through Relay. On-chain investigators confirmed that the amount is around that level, with some <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/0xngmi\/status\/2115889322130120849\">putting<\/a> it at $2.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>One affected trader claimed on X to have lost around $800,000, while another report suggested hundreds of transactions may have contributed to the total amount drained. Those individual figures were initially based on user and on-chain reports rather than Polymarket\u2019s own accounting.<\/p>\n<p>Polymarket said one of its external providers had been compromised and that the matter had been referred to law enforcement. It also pledged to fully reimburse affected traders and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Poly_Status\/status\/2115882755460309266\">announced<\/a> that the team had successfully identified the vulnerability and fixed it.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/polymarket-trading-disrupted-after-users-report-2-6m-in-losses\/\">Polymarket Trading Disrupted After Users Report $2.6M in Losses<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polymarket was forced to temporarily restrict trading on Thursday after a security incident reportedly drained millions of dollars from user accounts. The platform subsequently said it had identified and fixed the problem, which originated from a compromised external service rather than its core infrastructure. The first signs of potential trouble emerged hours ago when multiple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-154965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}