The official Thron X account was threatened on May 2, and the team now confirmed that the attack was caused by a social engineering attack. Hackers used an account to advertise the contract address and allegedly sent direct messages to users and followed suspicious accounts before the throne regained the control.
According to the throne Dao, every direct message published by his account X on May 2 must be ignored. Users were also instructed to delete all direct messages from the same day, because this was included in the hacker plan in order to distribute malicious information and cooperation with nothing unsuspecting users.
Attack related to a compromise account of a team member
Throne Dao announced that the attack began when one of the team members becomes a victim Hack of social engineering. After hackers gained access to the team member’s account, they were able to take control of the Master X blockchain account. Even after recovering by the throne, the attackers contacted others using a kidnapped personal account.
We know that our account X was threatened from 9:25 PST on May 2, 2025. At that time, the unauthorized page published a post containing the address of the contract (CA), sent direct messages (DMS) and observed various accounts unknown to us.
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– by Deint (@Trondo) May 3, 2025
The throne announced that he is currently analyzing the incident and identified several addresses of the X hackers and telegram. The team confirmed that law enforcement officers were contacted and are now involved in the case.
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The dispute between the sun and OKX about the request to freeze
The founder of the throne, Justin Sun, asked that OKX would freeze the portfolio associated with the hack. In the removed tweet, Sun stated that the funds stolen in the hook were moved to the stock exchange and claimed that law enforcement authorities had already sent a notification of freezing to the official OKX channel.
Dear Mr. Justin Sun, we are still waiting for the document’s application document. Thank you for removing all misleading public transport! https://t.co/jfcfwvkbxt
– Star (@star_okx) May 3, 2025
But the OKX XU CEO star reacted in public, rejecting that the stock exchange received a formal application. He claimed that the company’s legal team scanned all post-mail, including spam folders, and could not find anything.
Image: TRON DAO YouTube channel screenshot
Then Xu challenged the sun to present evidence by publishing a screenshot of the request. This public exchange could force Sun to remove his first post.
The throne pushes with Kant’s update
Despite the incident, Throne He was occupied on the development front. The network has recently introduced a up-to-date version of Kant Mainnet. The update contains redesigning the contract of contract events and improved performance of the API and node interface. These improvements are expected to escalate the way Blockchain interact with Ethereum and makes him safer and productive in the background.
Although these changes probably will not be unnoticed by general users, the throne explained that they are crucial for long -term development. They said that their goal is to enable larger operations, and the network became more solid as a billing framework.
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