'Critical' Polygon bug put $24 billion in tokens at risk until recent hard fork (via Yogita_Khatri5)
was reported on the bug bounty platform Immunefi by a whitehat hacker known as Leon Spacewalker. According to details shared Wednesday, the bug essentially could have allowed attackers to arbitrarily mint all of Polygon's more than 9.2 billion MATIC tokens from itsAfter Spacewalker found the bug, Immunefi informed the Polygon team the same day. The team then confirmed the vulnerability and moved to update the Polygon network, initially with an update for its Mumbai testnet.
After the MATIC tokens were stolen, a second whitehat hacker discovered the vulnerability and submitted a report to Immunefi. Polygon then released an emergency upgrade for its mainnet, with the hard fork taking place on December 5.in mid-December emerged about Polygon's silent, zero-warning hard fork.that there was a vulnerability and that the team would release additional details.
"All in all, the core development team struck the best possible balance between openness and doing what is best for the community, partners and the broader ecosystem in handling this extremely urgent and sensitive issue. But you can be the judge of that."
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