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Polygon pays $2M bounty on bug which could have compromised $850M in user funds -Breaking

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White hat hacker Gerhard Wagner has earned $2 million after reporting a solution to a potentially costly “double-spend” bug on the Polygon network.

Immunefi is a security company that published a blog on Oct. 21, detailing their findings. This helps to facilitate bug reports in decentralized finance projects, Polygon network’s Plasma Bridge was at RiskAn expert hacker could have $850,000,000 removed. The vulnerability could have been exploited by attackers in order to quickly convert $4500 from a burn transaction to the bridge 223 times.