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Polymarket halts international trading after third-party compromise
Polymarket halted trading on its international platform Thursday after saying a third-party provider was compromised.[2, 3, 10] The halt lasted nearly an hour, according to NBC News, and The Guardian reported trading resumed Thursday afternoon.[1, 7]
Why it matters The outage came days before heightened trading expected around the U.S. midterm elections.[4]
Covered by The Guardian, NBC News, The Wall Street Journal and 11 more
Read first Polymarket trading halted after vendor compromise; impacted users will be ‘made whole’
How balanced is this coverage?
Of the 11 rated outlets that covered it, 1 is left of center, 6 are center and 4 are right of center (3 of them in the Right group). 3 more are not rated.
- Left: none.
- Leans left: The Guardian (−0.70).
- Center: NBC News (−0.49), ABC News (−0.19), International Business Times (−0.14), Bloomberg (+0.08), Forbes (+0.19), CNBC (+0.40).
- Leans right: The Wall Street Journal (+0.63).
- Right: The Washington Times (+1.27), Washington Examiner (+1.34), IJR (+1.52).
Not rated The Information, Wired, Fast Company. Not placed: they have no lean score.
Each dot is an outlet that covered it, placed by its audience-lean score (Eady et al. 2025), which measures who shares its links, not how accurate it is. The ticks under the line are all 113 rated outlets Tare reads.
Read across the spectrum
- Left-leaning Polymarket temporarily suspends trading on international platform due to security incident
- Center Polymarket trading halted after vendor compromise; impacted users will be ‘made whole’
- Right-leaning Polymarket paused international trading after a security issue involving a third-party provider