.0xPolygon spoke publicly about its handling of a major security flaw that put tens of billions of dollars at risk, and led to a hefty bounty payout for one whitehat hacker. $MATIC realDannyNelson reports
A hacker who helped Polygon avert a multibillion-dollar disaster in early December won a $2.2 million bug bounty, the blockchain network said Wednesday.
It wasn’t fast enough to protect all the genesis contract’s funds, according to Immunefi, the crypto security startup that managed Polygon’s bug bounty program. Separate hackers pilfered 801,601 MATIC tokens on Dec. 4. Polygon Foundation said it took the hit. Indeed, the abrupt hard fork had spillover effects for the network as validators unprepared for the shift were knocked offline, according to the Discord logs.
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