Tron X Account Hacked on May 2, 2025; $45K Scam Unfolds

Nowadays, hacking incidents are becoming quite common in the crypto world, and in a similar devastating event, bad actors took control over X account of Tron DAO to trick people into sending money.

As per the information from the Tron team, the incident occurred on May 02, 2025, in which hackers hacked the X account and further shared a fake contract address and messaged users seeking money in return for advertising on the Tron account.

Hackers tricked users for $45,000 from Tron’s hacked account

It is worth noting that the bad actors who took control over X of Tron DAO managed to collect some $45,000 by fooling the users before the incident came into the spotlight.

While talking to a known media outlet, CoinTelegraph the public relation team at Tron told that some bad actors has took control over the X account and post fake contracts address and has also messaged peoples privately pretending to offer paid promotion in the official account of Tron.

The team notes that the whole process was a scam to trick people into sending money. Further quoting, “ Our security team quickly identified the intrusion and cut off access to the hacker, but we ask the community to continue to be vigilant. We will never ask anyone for payments like this via DM or otherwise.”

However the team said there are a few similarity between the hack of Tron’s account and the account of the New York Post, but it is still to early to draw a clear conclusion that both the incidents are carried out by the same hackers or a group of hackers.

After regaining the control over the account, Tron community posted “ 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.”

According to data from CoinMarketCap, TRON (TRX) price fell around 1.55% reaching $0.2463 and it market capitalization has reached $23.38 billion with a loss of 1.56%.

In the past 30 days, TRX price grew roughly 4.18% and in the 52-week time frame it is up by 103.04%, making it the 9th most prominent crypto in the wider market.

Crypto market price updates

Until publishing the crypto market cap was $2.93 trillion with a slight decline of 0.70% and the trading volume grew 15.60% reaching $63.59 billion at the same time the crypto fear and greed index was at 50 indicating a neturalilty in the wider market sentiment.

Bitcoin has been tumbling in the range of $90k to 95k, and when writing, it was exchanging hands at $94,351 with a slight loss of 0.41%, and its market cap is still below the $2 trillion mark.