The Polymarket hack is one of the fastest-rising stories on Reddit right now. Since the first thread appeared at Oct 29, 18:36 UTC, we have counted 5 threads about it in 4 communities, led by r/technology, r/nba and r/news. Together they have drawn about 7.3K upvotes and 464 comments.
What the sources report
The articles behind the biggest threads, quoted directly from each publisher’s own summary.
- Wired: Polymarket Halted International Trading After Hackers Drained Accounts
The company says an unnamed third-party provider was compromised. Trading has resumed, and Polymarket says affected traders will be made whole.
- NBC News: Polymarket trading halted after vendor compromise; impacted users will be ‘made whole’
“We’ll make this right and are fully reimbursing all affected traders,” the company said in a post after trading resumed.
The numbers in the headlines
- $3 million: cited by a post in r/nba
Where Reddit is talking about it
| Community | Threads | Upvotes | Comments | First thread |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| r/technology | 2 | 3,987 | 267 | Oct 29, 21:11 UTC |
| r/nba | 1 | 3,329 | 197 | Oct 30, 00:22 UTC |
| r/news | 1 | 1 | 0 | Oct 30, 11:19 UTC |
| r/CryptoCurrency | 1 | 0 | 0 | Oct 29, 18:36 UTC |
The biggest threads
- At the same time Adam Silver announces partnership with Polymarket, Hackers drain Polymarket accounts to the tune of over $2.7 Millionr/nba · 3,329 upvotes · 197 comments · Oct 30, 00:22 UTC
- Polymarket Halted International Trading After Hackers Drained Accountsr/technology · 2,973 upvotes · 129 comments · Oct 29, 21:11 UTC · Wired
- Polymarket Hacked - Users Reported Funds Stolen From Their Walletsr/technology · 1,014 upvotes · 138 comments · Oct 30, 05:17 UTC · cybersecuritynews.com
- Polymarket halts trading for an hour after vendor compromise, says affected users will be ‘made whole’r/news · 1 upvotes · 0 comments · Oct 30, 11:19 UTC · NBC News
- Polymarket Hit by Supply Chain Attack: Malicious Third-Party Script Found Draining Portfolios and Wallets (At Least $800k+ Stolen. FULL ANALYSIS)r/CryptoCurrency · 0 upvotes · 0 comments · Oct 29, 18:36 UTC · infostealers.com
Timeline on Reddit
- First thread we found, in r/CryptoCurrency: “Polymarket Hit by Supply Chain Attack: Malicious Third-Party Script Found Draining Portfolios and Wallets (At Least $800k+ Stolen. FULL ANALYSIS)”
- First link to Wired shared, in r/technology.
- The story reaches r/nba: “At the same time Adam Silver announces partnership with Polymarket, Hackers drain Polymarket accounts to the tune of ov…”
- The biggest thread so far is posted in r/nba (3,329 upvotes, 197 comments by our last count).
- The story reaches r/news: “Polymarket halts trading for an hour after vendor compromise, says affected users will be ‘made whole’”
How this page is made
SubMouse watches dozens of large, safe-for-work subreddits and Google's trending searches. When several communities start talking about the same event at the same time, we group those threads into one story and publish this page, then refresh it while the story keeps rising. The counts are ours; everything said about the event itself is quoted and credited to the post or outlet it comes from. Claims in Reddit posts are unverified unless an outlet confirms them. Upvote and comment counts come from Reddit's public data via the Arctic Shift archive and can lag. Spotted a mistake? Tell us. Not affiliated with Reddit.