TRON’s Twitter Account Hijacked in Brazen Social Engineering Heist

Another day, another crypto platform gets duped—this time it’s TRON’s official X (Twitter) account compromised in a slick social engineering attack. Just when you thought security teams learned their lesson after last year’s $600M bridge hacks.

How it happened: Hackers bypassed authentication (probably with a fake ’urgent compliance’ email to some overworked intern) and seized control of @trondao. Classic playbook—because why bother cracking encryption when human error’s on sale?

The fallout: 30 minutes of rogue posts shilling scam tokens before TRON’s team regained control. No funds lost, but reputation damage? Priceless—especially when your blockchain’s supposed to be ’decentralized.’

Silver lining: At least they didn’t ’accidentally’ promote a memecoin like that hedge fund that pumped-and-dumped their own portfolio last quarter. Progress?

The rise of social engineering threats

Social engineering is responsible for 98% of cyberattacks, and the TRON incident is the latest in a series of high-profile social engineering and phishing attacks in the crypto sector this year. Just days earlier, an elderly American lost $330 million in Bitcoin after being targeted by a sophisticated social engineering scam. In that case, attackers manipulated the victim’s trust and gained access to their wallet, quickly laundering the stolen funds through multiple exchanges and privacy coins.

Another recent case involved the theft of over $40 million in bitcoin from a high-net-worth individual. Hackers used a combination of phishing emails, impersonation, and fake support tickets to bypass even hardware wallet protections.

Advanced social engineering tactics can defeat even the most watertight security measures, and even crypto OGs can fall prey to sophisticated hackers. The breach of TRON’s X account makes it clear that even well-resourced organizations are not immune to the threat.