Polymarket Phishing Loss Climbs to $3.1 Million After Full-Refund Pledge

Polymarket Phishing Loss Climbs to $3.1 Million After Full-Refund Pledge


Backlit laptop keyboard for a ProCoinNews article about a Polymarket phishing incident. image By Isaac • June 28, 2026 9:07 am •

The Polymarket phishing attack is now pegged at roughly $3.1 million in stolen PUSD, an increase over earlier estimates.

Blockchain intelligence firm AMLBot updated the loss figure, and 11 user wallets were affected.

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The stolen funds were taken from Polygon and then bridged to Ethereum. Polymarket has pledged to refund affected users in full.

The attack did not break the core prediction-market protocol, and it did not hit every Polymarket user. The vector was a third-party vendor that fed malicious code into the front end for some people.

Polymarket Traders described the vendor and front-end mechanics behind the incident response. Polymarket Traders said a third-party vendor had been compromised and had injected malicious code into the

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