It is estimated that the hacker who took over the Thron Dao X account earned around $ 45,000 in incorrectly obtained funds, according to the spokesman Tron.
In an interview with Cointelegraph, the Throne Public Relations team confirmed that on May 2, the Thron Dao account published a contract address and sent direct messages to pay for the payment in exchange for a promotional advertisement on the TRON account.
“Our security team quickly identified the invasion and cut off access to the hacker, but we ask the community to keep vigilance. We will never ask anyone for payment via DM or in a different way,” they said.
The team said that based on the illegal address of the contract, which was published by the hacker, the amount of incorrectly asked seemed about USD 45,000.
Asked if the same hacker could be responsible for the alleged Hack Account X in Up-to-date York on May 3, the TRON band told Cointelegraph that “it seems that there are some similarities” between these two safety incidents; They also warned, however, that the investigation was in progress and “every final connection would be premature.”
After recovering the thron Dao he said In the update of May 2 X, they suspect that Hack showed that a team member was “focused on a malicious attack of social engineering, which led to a violation of their account.”
“Even after logging out and restoring our access, they continue to contact others, offering posts from our main account in exchange for payment,” said Tron Dao.
The TRON team is still investigating and says that they have contact with law enforcement agencies. The founder of the throne, Justin Sun, also accused Crypto Exchange OKX of the lack of action on the request of law enforcement authorities of freezing stolen funds related to the attack.
The founder and general director of OKX XU publicly denied the allegation, and Sun removed the original post with the accusation.
Curve Finance combines a list of hacks x accounts
Decentralized financing of the loan protocol curve has also recently suffered an X account by an evil actor, increasing the growing list of high -profile companies and people “quietly”, to which hackers on social media.
In the now removed post on May 5, X, the scam, posing as Curve Finance, released a link to Airdrop CRV with a weekly registration period, which quickly X-Orle eyes. Suspicious It can be false.
Founder of Curve Finance Michael Egorov confirmed In response to CRYPTO Credibull analyst, that he was a bad actor publishing apparent links so far: “No other account is hacked – control over X. Simply someone was accepted.”
Since then, the Finance team recovered Access to the aid of a team that contained the seal of the Cyber Safety Group blocked Some users who marked the takeover of the account, including Credibull Crypto.
The reason for Hack has not yet been made available in public, but in response to the user’s question, Curve Finance Team he said It is still “unclear, how access to the account was obtained” and there was no trace of any compromise on the client’s side. “
Other loud hacks of account x
Lots of other loud X accounts have also been taken over by bad actors this year. On April 15, a member of the UK parliament, Lucy Powell, has taken his account to promote the fraud Crypto, called House of Commons Coin (HOC).
Data aggregator Crypto, Kaito AI and its founder, Yu Hu, were victims of Hack on social media x March 15, when the fraudsters published that Kaito wallets were violated and the user funds were threatened.
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Meanwhile, the Pump.Fun X account was also hacked on February 26 and promoted several false tokens, including a false management token on the Pump called Pump.
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