“We now have access and have locked the Polygon community discord server. While we examine every external bot and integration to prevent this from happening once more, all of them have been disabled,” Polygon stated on X.

At about 5 a.m. GMT, a false message appeared on the Polygon Discord, apparently from the account of its community lead, Smokey, as contemporaneous screenshots reveal. Along with a phishing link, the message promoted a “special pre-migration” airdrop ahead of the Polygon network’s intended conversion from its native MATIC token to the improved POL token, set for September 4.

At least one user says they fell victim to the attack, and blockchain evidence supports their allegation of losing a Uniswap position valued at roughly $145,000 in the hack. Though it’s not apparent when the repost occurred, the transfer transaction took place roughly forty minutes after Polygon’s chief information security officer, Mudit Gupta, informed the Polygon community of the hack via a post on X. 

The wallet address used for the Uniswap transaction, which most likely belongs to the hacker, seems to have claimed former victims. Ten days ago, the wallet moved ether valued at $72,300 at the time to a wallet identified by Etherscan as a phishing agent currently possessing about $400,000 in assets. The wallet moved $29,500 worth of ether five days ago to another, similarly flagged wallet with $150,000 in assets.

The crew of Polygon is not clear right now on the method of compromise for their Discord. “At this moment, we don’t believe any of our mods were compromised this way (being phished). It seems more likely that a bot/integration we had was compromised. Still going through the logs,”  Gupta stated on X.

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