TRON’s X Account Hacked: A Tale of Social Engineering, Ego Clashes, and LOLs

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It was on the second day of May, in the year 2025—though, frankly, time has lost all meaning when one is dealing with blockchain drama—that the venerable social estate known as TRON found its official X account in the hands of rascals. The matter, as the wise elders of TRON DAO have now confessed (with the weariness of peasants condemning another harsh winter), arose not from mighty battles nor technological marvels, but from the oldest foe of all: human gullibility. A social engineering plot! How surprising. Next, you’ll tell me someone tried to open a field gate with a spoon.

The intruders, presumably with more free time than sense, commandeered the account to trumpet contract addresses, peddling their wares like snake oil merchants on the village green. Direct messages flew about—beware!—and users, wandering like lost sheep, were urged with near-religious fervor to perform a cleansing and delete any message received on the fateful day. Would Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina have survived in a world where spam DMs were unavoidable? Unlikely, but at least Vronsky wouldn’t have borrowed her crypto.

It Began With a Single, Careless Soul

The DAO, in a pronouncement as grand as a czar’s edict, revealed the origin: it all began with a team member succumbing, with tragic inevitability, to the social engineering virus. Through this frailty, the hackers pried open the castle gates, seized the master X account, and ran amok. Even after TRON reclaimed their domain, the bandits lingered, like disgruntled guests at a party refusing to leave until every canapé has been eaten.

We’re aware that our X account was compromised from 9:25 AM PST on May 2, 2025. During this time, an unauthorized party published a post containing a contract address (CA), sent direct messages (DMs), and followed various accounts unknown to us.

Please be reminded: TRON DAO will…

— TRON DAO (@trondao) May 3, 2025

With the air of landowners suddenly finding their fields trampled by marauders, TRON declared they were combing through evidence—X addresses, Telegram handles, and no doubt someone’s babushka’s phone number—whilst the law, summoned like cavalry from a distant province, prepared to act.

Pride, Prejudice, and the Petty Disputes of Men

An episode would not be complete without a squabble between titled lords. Thus entered Justin Sun, founder of TRON and apparent collector of drama, who beseeched the house of OKX to freeze a wallet linked to the hack. In a post that has since vanished into the digital ether, Sun lamented funds absconded and laid blame, while insisting the law had spoken (or at least, sent an email).

Dear Mr H.E. Justin Sun, we are still waiting for enforcement request document. Thanks for deleting all confusing public communications!

— Star (@star_okx) May 3, 2025

But Star Xu, lord of the OKX domain, dismissed all claims with the insouciant wave of a man who has read neither War and Peace nor his spam folder. No formal request had reached his inbox, he protested; lawyers, squires, and even the humble stable boy had checked. Evidence was demanded—a screenshot, nothing less!—perhaps unaware that screenshots, like Tolstoy manuscripts, are seldom delivered on time. Thus Sun’s message vanished, as so much Internet bravado does.

Whether Sun withdrew out of prudence or pure exasperation, history will judge, though not too harshly—it is the blockchain, after all, and its memory is long but easily bored.

TRON: Progress Marches On (and On…)

Meanwhile, life, and code, trudge ever forward. TRON’s engineers, no strangers to adversity nor the ceaseless monotony of improvement, pressed on with the Kant mainnet upgrade. Here, with the drama of the human soul and the muted applause of indifferent users, contracts were overhauled and APIs strengthened. Perhaps these tweaks will birth a new era of blockchain enlightenment; perhaps it will simply mean fewer bugs, which is nearly as good.

The DAO claims these changes are foundational, the sort of groundwork Dostoyevsky himself would admire if he swapped novels for Node.js. Will the masses notice? Unlikely. But like any good Russian novel, the true reward lies in the perseverance—and maybe a reminder that if you get a suspicious DM on May 2, delete it and go outside for a walk instead. 🚶‍♂️🤑

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2025-05-05 02:16