Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to artificially heat a temperature sensor at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport, triggering false high-temperature readings on Polymarket. The fraudster placed bets predicting the spike and won ~$34,000. Météo-France detected the tampering and filed a complaint; Polymarket relocated the sensor.
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Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets
Fraudster exploited Polymarket's oracle vulnerability by physically tampering with a Paris airport temperature sensor using a hairdryer, winning ~$34k in weather bets before Météo-France detected the scheme.
Monday, May 4, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Hacker NewsBY sys://pipeline
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