Polymarket Restores Trading and Promises Reimbursement After Third-Party Security Breach
By PYMNTS
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Polymarket briefly took its international exchange offline on Thursday (Oct. 29) due to an issue with a compromised third-party provider. The prediction market firm announced that the issue affecting Polymarket.com has been identified and fixed.
Key facts
- Polymarket took its international exchange offline briefly on Thursday (Oct. 29).
- The disruption was caused by a compromise at one of Polymarket's third-party providers.
- Polymarket announced on X that it identified and fixed the issue impacting Polymarket.com.
Source excerpt · PYMNTS
Prediction market firm Polymarket took its international exchange offline briefly on Thursday (Oct. 29) as it dealt with an issue related to a third-party provider, the company said in a post on X. “We’ve identified [and] fixed an issue impacting our international platform, Polymarket.com,” the company said in the post by its Polymarket Traders account. “One of our [third-party] providers was comp…