Tron's official X account was compromised on May 2, and the team has now confirmed that the attack was due to a social engineering attack. The pirates used the account to announce a contract address and allegedly sent direct messages to users and monitoring of suspicious accounts before Tron resumed control.
As indicated by Tron Dao, any direct message published by his X account on May 2 must be ignored. Users were also invited to delete any direct message of the same day, as this was included in the Pirate plan to distribute malicious information and engage with without distrust users.
Attack linked to the compromise account of team members
Tron Dao announced that the attack began with one of the members of his team becoming a victim of social engineering hack. Once the pirates had access to the team member's account, they were then able to take control of the Blockchain Master X account. Even after recovering access by Tron, the attackers continued to contact the others using the diverted personal account.
We are aware that our X account was compromised from 9:25 a.m. PST on May 2, 2025. During this period, an unauthorized part published an article containing a contract address (CA), sent direct messages (DMS) and followed various unknown accounts.
Please remember: Tron Dao Will…
– Dao tron (@trondao) May 3, 2025
Tron said he was currently examining the incident and identified several X and Telegram Pirates addresses. The team has confirmed that law enforcement officials have been contacted and are now engaged in the case.
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Dispute between the sun and the OKX on the freeze
The founder of Tron, Justin Sun, asked OKX to freeze a portfolio associated with hacking. In a deleted tweet, Sun said that the funds stolen in hacking had been transferred to the scholarship and alleged that the police had already sent notice to the official OKX channel.
Dear Mr. He Justin Sun, we are still waiting for a application for application. Thank you for deleting all confusing public communications!
– Star (@star_okx) May 3, 2025
But the star of the CEO of OKX, XU, reacted in public, rejecting that the exchange had received an official request. He said that the company's legal team had scanned all post-posts, including spam files, and found nothing.
Image: TRON DAO YouTube channel screenshot
Xu then put it to produce evidence by displaying a screenshot of the demand. This public exchange could have forced Sun to remove his initial position.
Tron grows with the upgrade of Kant
Despite the incident, Tron was occupied on the development front. The network recently deployed a new version of its Kant Mainnet upgrade. The update includes an overhaul of its contractual event system and improved API and node performance. These improvements should improve the way the blockchain interacts with Ethereum and makes it safer and more efficient in the background.
Although these changes will probably not go unnoticed by general users, Tron has explained that they are essential for long -term development. They said that their objective was to allow larger operations and that the network becomes more robust as a regulation framework.
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