According to a spokesperson of Tron, a hacker has estimated to handle the Tron Dao X account, which improperly earns about $ 45,000 in the money.
Speaking to cointelegraph, the Tron Public Relations team confirmed that on May 2, the Tron Dao account posted a contract address and sent direct messages to pay for payment in exchange for publicity advertisements on the TRON account.
“Our security team quickly identified the intrusion and cuts out access to the hacker, but we ask the community to be vigilant. We would never ask anyone for such payment through DM or otherwise,” he said.
The team said that the amount improperly $ 45,000, based on the illegal contract address posted by the hacker, is about $ 45,000.
Asked if the same hacker could be responsible for the X account hack of the New York Post on 3 May, the Tron team told the coinlagraph that “some similarities appear” between two security incidents; However, he also warned that the investigation is on and “any certain relationship will be prematurely.”
After achieving access, Tron Dow Said In the May 2X update that he suspects that the team member was “targeted in a malicious social engineering attack, which compromised his account.”
“Even when the criminal was logged out and our reach was restored, they continued to contact others, offered the post from our main account in exchange for payment,” Tron DO said.
The Tron team is still investigating and says they are in touch with law enforcement. Tron’s founder Justin Sun also accused the Crypto Exchange OKX that he failed to work at a law enforcement request to freeze the stolen funds associated with the attack.
OKX founder and CEO Star Joo has publicly denied the allegation, and Sun has removed the original post with the charge.
Curve Finance X Account includes the list of hacks
Decentralized Borrowed Protocol Curve Finance also recently faced an X account acquisition by an evil actor, which is “quietly” accessed by social media hackers in the growing list of high-profile firms and individuals.
Now in May 5 X Post, a scammer presented as Curve Finance shared a link to a CRV Aircraft with a week-long registration period, which some eagle-iid X user quickly quickly Suspicious There may be fraud.
Curve Finance founder Michael Egorov Confirmed In response to analyst credibul Crypto that it was a bad actor who was posting Sham link till now, “No other account has been hacked – X account control was taken silently by anyone.”
Curve finance team has been since Got back Access with the help of a team which included cyber security group seal, and found that the hacker is separated from posting the link to the scam Blocked Some users who acquired the account, including the credibul crypto.
The cause of the hack has not yet been publicly shared, but in response to the user’s query, the curve finance team Said It is still “clear” how the account was reached “, and” there was no sign of any customer-side agreement. “
Other high-profile X account hack
A group of other high-profile X accounts have also been taken by bad actors this year. On 15 April, Lucy Powell, a member of the UK Parliament, had taken an account to promote a scam Crypto token, a scam called the House of Commons Coin (HOC).
Crypto data aggregator Cato AI and its founder, U Hu, were victims of an X social media hack on March 15, when the scammers posted that the Kaito wallet was compromised and the funds of the users were at risk.
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Meanwhile, the X account of pump.fun was also hacked on 26 February and promoted several fake tokens including a fraudulent regime tokens for a platform called pump.
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