How Polygon: Security incident

Two thefts left millions of POL in five blocked addresses. A Polygon proposal would move those balances into recovery wallets by changing the network’s rules at a specific block. Getting the tokens there would resolve one part of the recovery.…

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Sources

• https://crypto.news/how-polygon-would-return-70-million-stolen-pol-to-recovery-wallets/

Record history

First seen: 2026-11-06T08:14:49.000Z. Last updated: 2026-11-07T06:31:06.879Z. Revision: 4.