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Error'd: Named And

1 week ago

I do like it when submissions include the creator of the wtf, unless the specific kind of err is really spectacular and then it might be noteworthy regardless. This week we received a few who did tell us something about the responsible party. That being said, on with the party!"

An anonymous contributor shared with us this "Important order info from Ubbad HBG-ICS I", saying "I checked on Amazon but can't find order #{randnum(3)}-{randnum(6)}. This is worrisome though, because my credit card does end in **{randnum(4)}." Wild, so does mine!

"With the right translation this could say anything" observed B.J. H. sagely. "I guess they haven't translated to English yet. I especially like this: [%EXTERNAL_TRANSLATION:New gender_aware email footer body 5 privacy policy BLUE%] Can't they decide on capitalization and whether to use spaces or underscores?"

"this could go in two directions" worried undercapitalized (but aren't we all) klinsten. "well... it is a mail with my paycheck. but the label 'promotions' got me worried. do i get a promotion (nice!!) or did they apply a discount to my paycheck (less nice!!) i'm afraid to click it..."

Reader Valts S. wondered "I'm not sure where I'm supposed to track my order, but it feels like it's been censored." Or merely forgotten?

Regular contributor Michael R. took a flier with this, hedging that it's "Probably more a joke than a RWTF." But it's a little funny, so this editor will allow it.

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Polymarket Halted International Trading After Hackers Drained Accounts

1 week ago
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Trading has resumed on Polymarket's flagship international platform after a hack that drained money from the wallets of some traders. A third-party vendor based in the United Kingdom was breached, not the prediction market's website itself. Law enforcement in the UK have been notified of the incident, the company said. Trading was initially paused while the company investigated for several hours. On X, prominent traders complained that they had lost money; Blockchain analytics firm Bubblemaps reported that around 700 users appear affected, with approximately $2.7 million stolen. Polymarket declined to comment when WIRED asked how many traders were impacted by the breach and how much money was lost, but said it will refund impacted traders. The hack did not impact users on Polymarket US, the company's newer platform for people within the United States. Polymarket runs two separate prediction markets; Polymarket US operates as a federally regulated financial exchange within the country, while the flagship Polymarket is a cryptocurrency-based platform that is banned in the United States and a number of other countries. This is not the first time that Polymarket traders have experienced losses like this. "A nearly identical vendor-compromise attack hit the platform in June, draining close to $3 million from at least 11 user wallets through the same kind of injected frontend script," reports StartupFortune. Hours before Polymarket halted trading, more than $2 billion in cryptocurrency was drained from Binance wallets in just 40 minutes.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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