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 <li><strong>Polygon (MATIC) has regained control of its discord channel.</strong></li> 
 <li><strong>The firm’s CISO confirmed the team was cleaning up the platform to avoid a repeat.</strong></li> 
 <li><strong>MATIC declined 9% following the Polygon discord channel hack scare.</strong></li> 
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<p>Polygon (MATIC) has regained control of its discord channel hours after hackers allegedly compromised the platform on Saturday, August 24. In a recent post on X, Polygon’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Mudit Gupta announced the team had recovered the platform and was doing a clean-up to ensure the alleged hackers don’t return.</p>   
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   <p lang="en" dir="ltr">Update: We've regained access and currently cleaning up all the changes made by the hacker to make sure they can't come back.</p>— Mudit Gupta (@Mudit__Gupta) <a href="https://twitter.com/Mudit__Gupta/status/1827280495228678361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">August 24, 2024</a>
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<p>Gupta initially advised Polygon’s community members not to click on any links in the discord, citing a compromise by hackers. It took the CISO nearly three hours before announcing the platform’s recovery and much longer to declare the space open for normal activities after removing external bots posted by the alleged hackers.</p>   
<p>Meanwhile, several hours later, Polygon announced via its official X account that it had regai…</p>
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