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Polymarket says hackers stole users’ funds

The prediction market giant Polymarket said it's refunding users who had funds stolen due to a third-party breach.

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Jun 25, 2026 at 19:58 TechCrunch

Polymarket says hackers stole users’ funds

The prediction market giant Polymarket said it's refunding users who had funds stolen due to a third-party breach.

Jun 23, 2026 at 19:19 TechCrunch

Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta to launch its own prediction market

The app would be independent of Meta's other social media offerings, although sources told the NYT that those social sites could direct u...

Jun 22, 2026 at 20:10 Ars Technica

Polymarket's viral videos showed people winning big, but the bets were fake

"Winning" bets were made on cloned website and would have lost money, WSJ finds.

Jun 21, 2026 at 16:35 TechCrunch

Polymarket reportedly paid creators to post deceptive videos about fake bets

Many of those videos were reportedly filmed on “near-perfect copies” of the Polymarket website, while featuring trades and winnings that ...

Jun 21, 2026 at 01:12 Hacker News

Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators

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Jun 4, 2026 at 12:33 SecurityLab

Заклейте окна, за нами смотрят. Зачем Polymarket прячет мониторы от инвесторов Kalshi?

Как война платформ для прогнозов дошла до паранойи.

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