Guy Used a Hair Dryer to Rob a Prediction Market
Polymarket was settling Paris temperature bets on a single Météo France sensor near the Charles de Gaulle runway perimeter. One guy figured out it was basically unguarded.
He bought the long-shot temperature outcome for pennies. Then walked up to the sensor and hit it with a portable heat source long enough to spike the daily max reading.
Market resolved in his favor. Temperature snapped back to normal within minutes. He did it twice, April 6 and April 15, pocketed $34,000 total, and was gone before Météo France caught on and filed charges.
"Hyperstitions." Wild word for what is just a very elegant crime.
A prediction market oracle was a single unguarded weather sensor, and someone immediately exploited that in the most physical, low-tech way imaginable.
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