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Polymarket pauses international trading after third-party breach

Some user accounts were drained after an outside provider was compromised. Polymarket says affected users will be made whole.

Polymarket pauses international trading after third-party breachExchanges

Polymarket suspended trading on its international platform on 29 October after a third-party provider was compromised and funds were withdrawn from some user accounts without their approval.

DeFi Llama put losses at about $2.7 million. Polymarket said the issue had been fixed, that affected users would be made whole, and that it had referred the breach to law enforcement.

It is the second third-party breach to affect Polymarket users this year, after an incident in June.

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