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1078 A Google engineer allegedly turned the company’s confidential search data into $1.2M on Polymarket — and the case quietly exposes the attack surface every prediction market is pretending not to see

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Canal Letter @ Silicon Canals 3 place · 06/02/2026 04:00 EDT

A Google engineer allegedly turned the company’s confidential search data into $1.2M on Polymarket — and the case quietly exposes the attack surface every prediction market is pretending not to see

A Google software engineer has been charged with insider trading for allegedly turning confidential search data into profits on Polymarket — and the case exposes a structural problem prediction markets have been quietly ignoring: every new contract listed creates a new attack surface, and every institution holding non-public information becomes a potential leak point.

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