According to a spokesman in TRON, the hacker, who has acquired the TRON Dao X account, is estimated to have earned about $ 45,000 inappropriate.
The TRON Public Relations Team confirmed that in an interview with COINTELEGRAPH, the TRON DAO account posted a contract address on May 2 and sent a message directly to request the payment of the promotional advertisement of the TRON account.
“Our security team quickly identified invasion and blocked access to hackers, but the community asks you to continue to be wary. We will not ask anyone to pay this payment through DM.”
The team was inappropriate for $ 45,000 based on the illegal contract address posted by the hacker.
Tron team asked whether the same hacker would be responsible for the New York Post’s X account hacking on May 3. But they also warned that the investigation is in progress and that “all decisive connections are a timely day.”
TRON DAO said in the X -update on May 2 after the recovery of access, the team member suspected that the account was damaged with the goal of a malicious social engineering attack.
TRON DAO said, “After the offender is logged out and the access is restored, he continues to contact others to provide the posts of the basic account in return.
The Tron team says that it is still under investigation and is in contact with the law enforcement agency. Tron founder Justin Sun also accused the encryption exchange OKX failed to request the law enforcement to freeze the stolen funds related to attacks.
OKX founder and CEO Star XU publicly rejected this claim, and SUN was originally removed from the original post.
Curve Finance joins the X account hacking list
The decentralized loan protocol curved financing has recently been acquired by a bad actor, and has added a list of popular companies’ popular companies, accessed by social media hackers.
On May 5th, the con artist who poses as a curve finance on the deleted May 5 has shared a link to the CRV air drop with the registration period for a week, and some eagle X users can be quickly fraudulent.
Curve Finance founder Michael Egorov confirmed that the analyst Credibull Crypto was a bad actor who posted fake links so far.
Curve Finance Team restored access with the help of a team, including SEAL, a cyber security group, and in addition to posting a fraudulent link, the hacker blocked some users who indicated the acquisition of accounts, including Credibull encryption.
The cause of hacking has not yet been publicly shared, but as a response to the user query, the Curve Finance team still said, “How is an unclear account access?”
Other famous X account hacking
This year, many other famous X accounts have been acquired by Bad Actors. On April 15, Lucy Powell, a member of the British parliament, took over her account to promote a fraudulent token called House Commons Coin (HOC).
Crypto Data Aggregator Kaito AI and his founder, YU HU, were victims of X -social media hacking on March 15, when a scammer posted that KAITO’s wallet compromised and the user’s funds were in danger.
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Meanwhile, PUMP.FUN’s X account was hacked on February 26 and promoted some fake tokens, including a fraudulent token for a platform called PUMP.
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