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Recently, the X accounts of Curve Finance and Tron DAO were seized by scammers, adding to the growing list of high-profile account takeovers.

The hacker who seized the Tron DAO X account is expected to have made about $45,000 from improperly requested funds, according to a spokesperson for Tron.

Speaking to Cointelegraph, the PR team at Tron confirmed that on May 2, the Tron DAO account posted a contract address and sent direct messages requesting payments for promotional advertisements on the Tron account.

Our security team quickly uncovered the breach and severed the hacker's connection, but we ask the community to exercise caution. We will never ask anyone to send such amounts via private messages or otherwise.

The team stated that based on the illicit contract address posted by the hacker, the improperly requested amount appears to be around $45,000.

When asked if the same hacker was responsible for the alleged hack of the New York Post's X account on May 3, the Tron team told Cointelegraph that "there seem to be some similarities" between the security incidents; however, they also warned that the investigation is ongoing and that "any final connection would be premature."

After regaining access, Tron DAO stated in an X update on May 2 that they suspected the breach resulted from "targeting a team member in a malicious social engineering attack, leading to their account being compromised."

Source: Tron DAO

"Even after the perpetrator logged out and we regained access, they continued to contact others, offering posts from our main account in exchange for payment," the Tron DAO organization stated.

The Tron team is still achieving, and states that it is in contact with law enforcement authorities. Justin Sun, the founder of Tron, also accused the cryptocurrency exchange OKX of failing to respond to a request from law enforcement to freeze the stolen funds linked to the attack.

The founder and CEO of OKX, Star Xu, publicly denied this accusation, and Sun removed the original post that included the accusation.

Curve Finance has joined the list of X account hacks.

The decentralized lending protocol Curve Finance has also recently suffered from a malicious actor taking over its X account, adding to the growing list of prominent companies and individuals who have been "quietly" accessed by social media hackers.

In a now-deleted X post dated May 5, a scammer posing as Curve Finance shared a link to an airdrop of the CRV token with a week-long registration period, which some insightful X users quickly suspected might be fraudulent.

Curve Finance founder, Michael Egorov, confirmed in response to analyst CrediBULL Crypto that a malicious actor has been spreading fake links so far, "it seems that no other account has been hacked - the X account was quietly taken over by someone."

Source: CrediBULL Crypto

The Curve Finance team has since regained access with the help of a team that includes the cybersecurity group SEAL, and found that in addition to posting fraudulent links, the hacker also blocked some users who reported the account takeover, including CrediBULL Crypto.

The reason for the hack has not been publicly disclosed yet, but in response to an inquiry from a user, the Curve Finance team stated that it is still "unclear how the account was accessed," and there are "no signs of any client-side breach."

Source: Curve Finance

Other high-profile X account hacks

A large number of high-profile X accounts have also been seized by malicious actors this year. On April 15, Lucy Powell's account, a British MP, was seized to promote a fraudulent cryptocurrency called the House of Commons Coin (HOC).

The cryptocurrency data aggregation company Kaito AI and its founder Yu Hu were victims of an X social media hack on March 15, when scammers posted that Kaito wallets had been hacked and user funds were at risk.

Related: The Breaking Bad star's account on X was hacked due to a memecoin scheme.

Meanwhile, the Pump.fun account on X was also hacked on February 26 and several fake tokens were promoted, including a fraudulent governance token for a platform called Pump.

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