Polygon restores control of Discord server following $145,000 hack as POL token launch approaches

Polygon has regained control of its community Discord after it was hijacked for about four hours on Saturday morning, allegedly leading to the theft of about $145,000 in assets from one user. 

The wallet address where the Uniswap position was transferred, which likely belongs to the hacker, appears to have claimed other victims in the past. Ten days ago, the wallet transferred ether worth $72,300 at the time to a wallet flagged by Etherscan as a phishing perpetrator that now holds nearly $400,000 in assets. Five days ago, the wallet transferred $29,500 worth of ether to a different, but similarly flagged, wallet with $150,000 in assets. 

Polygon's team is currently unsure of the mechanism by which its Discord was compromised. "At this moment, we don't believe any of our mods were compromised this way [being phished]. It seems more likely that a bot/integration we had was compromised. Still going through the logs," Gupta posted on X. Gupta also stated that the team plans on releasing a postmortem following a review of the hack. 

Polygon did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Block.