It is estimated that one of the infiltrators seized at the TROO X account has achieved about $ 45,000 in incorrectly required funds, according to a Tron spokesman.
Speaking to Cointelegraph, the Tron Public Relaces team confirmed that on May 2, the TON DAO account published a contract address and sent direct messages to request payments in exchange for the promotional advertisement at the TON account.
They said: “Our security team has identified the speed of storming and cutting access to the infiltrator, but we ask the community to continue to be awake. We will never ask anyone for such payments across DM or otherwise.”
The team said that, based on the address of the unlawful contract published by the infiltrator, the required amount seemed incorrectly about $ 45,000.
He was asked if it could be the infiltrator himself responsible for Supposed X New York Post account Hack on May 3, Tron Cointelegraph told “there seems to be some similarities” between the security accidents; However, they also warned that the investigation is continuing and “any final communication will be premature.”
After receiving access, tron dao He said On the May 2 update, they suspect that the penetration is the result of being a member of the team “to target him in a harmful social engineering attack, which led to their account.”
“Even after registration of the perpetrator and restoring our arrival, they continued to contact others, and to provide leaflets from our main account for payment,” said Tron Dow.
TON is still investigating and saying it is in contact with law enforcement. The founder of Tron Justin Sun as well OKX encryption exchange of failure To work on the request for law enforcement to freeze stolen money related to the attack.
OKX founder and CEO Xu publicly denied this allegation, and Sun’s original publication has removed the accusation.
Curve Finance joins the Hacks X Account menu
The financing of the decentralized lending protocol has also suffered from an acquisition at the expense of X by a bad actor, adding to the growing list of prominent companies and individuals “silently” by infiltrators on social media.
In a publication that was now deleted on May 5, the deception who pretends as a curve financing a link to the Airdrop CRV with a week -long registration period, which some X users enjoy quickly Suspected It can be fraudulent.
Current financing founder Michael Igorov certain In response to the Credbull Crypto analyst that it was A bad actor publishes the Ministry’s links To date, “no other account has been found to have been hacked – the X -holding account was silently taken by someone.”
Curve financing team since then Restore Access with the help of a team that guarantees the seal Prohibited Some users who reported the seizure of the account, including Credbull Crypto.
The cause of penetration was not publicly shared, but in response to the user’s inquiry, the curve financing team He said It is still clear how the account account was reached, and there was no “any sign of any compromise on the part of the customer.”
Other high -level X account breakthroughs
A large number of other prominent X accounts were also taken over by bad actors this year. On April 15, he was a member of Parliament in the United Kingdom, Lucy Powell, She seized her account to promote the fraud process Code called the currency council (HOC).
Kaito AI and its founder, Yu Hu, He was victims of social media penetration x on March 15thWhen the fraudsters published that the Kaito governor was at risk and that the user’s money was in danger.
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At the same time, pump.fun’s X account has also been hacked On February 26, it encouraged many fake symbols, including the fraudulent governance code called the pump.
