{"id":678038,"date":"2026-10-29T20:22:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T20:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=859919"},"modified":"2026-10-29T20:22:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T20:22:33","slug":"polymarket-halts-trading-over-exploit-that-stole-estimated-2-7m-from-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/polymarket-halts-trading-over-exploit-that-stole-estimated-2-7m-from-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Polymarket Halts Trading Over Exploit That Stole Estimated $2.7M From Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/polymarket-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"polymarket\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Prediction market giant Polymarket said Thursday that it had paused trading after discovering a third-party exploit that led to some users losing funds. Trading has resumed, with analysts estimating $2.7 million worth of crypto stolen from users. Polymarket Affected by Third-Party Exploit On Thursday, Oct. 29 at 2:33 p.m. ET, Polymarket wrote on X that [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prediction market giant Polymarket said Thursday that it had paused trading after discovering a third-party exploit that led to some users losing funds. Trading has resumed, with analysts estimating $2.7 million worth of crypto stolen from users. Polymarket Affected by Third-Party Exploit On Thursday, Oct. 29 at 2:33 p.m. ET, Polymarket wrote on X that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":678039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-678038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}