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According to Protos, George Cottrell, an aide to UK Reform Party leader Nigel Farage who was previously convicted of wire fraud, had his Polymarket account (username "GCottrell93") receive a total of $8.8 million in funds in October 2024—$7 million of which came from an OKX exchange wallet (in five transactions), and another $1.83 million from a ChangeNOW wallet. These funds were subsequently used to bet on Trump winning the US election, with approximately $13 million in winnings ultimately transferred to an OKX wallet and $282,000 to ChangeNOW.
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According to Josh Stevens, Engineering Vice President at Polymarket, $164,000 of the $573,200 stolen due to a compromised private key has been frozen through collaboration among ZachXBT, Bitcoin Vietnam, and ChangeNOW. Josh previously stated that this incident did not involve an exploit of Polymarket or the UMA contract, user funds remain secure, and Polymarket.com remains fully operational. The issue originated from a six-year-old private key that was leaked; this key existed within an internal supplementary funding configuration, resulting in the unauthorized transfer of funds to the associated address.