According to a Tron spokesman, the hackers who took over their Tron Dao X account are estimated to have earned about $45,000 in inappropriate funds.
Speaking to Cointelegraph, the Tron Public Relations team confirmed on May 2 that their Tron DAO account posted their contract address and sent a message directly to ask for payment in exchange for promotional ads for their Tron account.
“Our security team quickly identified the intrusion and blocked access to hackers, but we ask the community to stay vigilant. We don’t ask anyone to pay like this via DMs or anything like that,” they said.
The team said the amount improperly solicited appears to be around $45,000 based on the address of an illegal contract posted by the hackers.
When asked whether the same hacker would be assumed to be a New York Post X-account hack on May 3, the Tron team told Cointelegraph that “it appears to be a similarity” between the two security incidents. However, they also warned that the investigation is ongoing and that “decisive connections are premature.”
After regaining access, Tron Dao said in the May 2 X update that he suspects a hack will arise from team members “which led to accounts being compromised as they “targeted malicious social engineering attacks.”
“Even after the perpetrator was logged out and access was restored, they continued to contact others and provide posts from their main account in exchange for payment,” says Tron Dao.
The Tron team says they are still investigating and are in contact with law enforcement. Tron founder Justin Sun also accused Crypto Exchange Okx of failing to act on law enforcement requests to freeze stolen funds related to the attack.
OKX founder and CEO star Xu publicly denied the allegations, and Sun deleted the original post in the charges.
Curve Finance joins X Account Hacks list
Decentralized lending protocol curve finance has recently suffered from X-account takeovers by bad actors, and has been added to the list of famous companies and personal growth that social media hackers access.
On the X Post on May 5th, a scammer pretending to be Curve Finance shared a link to CRV Airdrop over a week-long registration period.
Michael Egolov, founder of Curve Finance, confirmed in his response to analyst’s credibull crypto that he was a bad actor who has posted fake links so far.
It was discovered that the Curve Finance Team has since regained access with the help of the team, including the Cybersecurity Group Seal, and in addition to posting scam links, the hackers also blocked users who flagged account takeovers, including Credibull Crypto.
The cause of the hack has not been disclosed yet, but depending on the user’s query, the Curve Finance Team said “how accounts are unknown” access was obtained, and “there are no indications of client-side compromise.”
Other famous X account hacks
This year, many other well-known X-accounts have also been carried over to bad actors. On April 15th, UK Parliament member Lucy Powell took over her account and promoted the fraudulent crypto token.
Crypto Data Aggregator Kaito AI and its founder Yu Hu were victims of the X social media hack on March 15, when a scammer posted that Kaito’s wallet was compromised and user funds were in danger.
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Meanwhile, Pump.Fun’s X account was also hacked on February 26th, promoting several fake tokens, including fraudulent governance tokens for a platform called Pump.
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