Polygon suffered a security breach today as hackers took over its community Discord channel for approximately three hours. The breach, which led to scammers infiltrating the channel and targeting users, has now been resolved.
Mudit Gupta, Polygon’s Chief Information Security Officer, confirmed that the team has regained full control of the Discord server and is reverting the changes made by the hacker.
Details of the hack
The breach was first reported when several Polygon users noticed suspicious activity on the Discord channel. Scammers posing as legitimate support agents began flooding the support channel, posting malicious links, and misleading users.
One community member, took to social media platform X to warn others about the situation, highlighting scam links in the announcements channel. The user noted:
“I could see a lot of people asking for help in support and scammers, under the guise of help, misleading them.”
As a result of his efforts to alert the community, he rece
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