{"id":128547,"date":"2025-05-04T03:16:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T03:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=128547"},"modified":"2025-05-04T03:16:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T03:16:47","slug":"okx-fires-back-at-trons-justin-sun-over-mysterious-freeze-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=128547","title":{"rendered":"OKX fires back at Tron&#039;s Justin Sun over mysterious &#039;freeze notice&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsOKX founder and CEO Star Xu has publicly defended the crypto exchange after Tron founder Justin Sun accused it of failing to act on a law enforcement request to freeze stolen funds following a recent hack of Tron\u2019s official X account.<br \/>\n\u201cOKX also has consumers protection policy according to law, we can\u2019t freeze a customer\u2019s funds according to your personal X post or an oral communication. I think you should understand it as the CEO of HTX,\u201d Xu said in an X post.<br \/>\nOKX says there is no communication in the spam box, either<br \/>\nXu said that the crypto exchange had not received any related correspondence through OKX\u2019s official channels. \u201cOur LE cooperation team just checked the email, including the spam box; we haven\u2019t received any request related with this case,\u201d  Xu said.<br \/>\nSource: Star XuIn what is now an unavailable X post, but was screenshotted by Xu, Sun had earlier claimed that OKX has not responded to a \u201cfreeze notice\u201d sent to its official email address from a \u201crelevant law enforcement agency.\u201d Sun said that he had no other way to contact OKX\u2019s compliance department.<br \/>\n\u201cThese stolen funds do not belong to me; I\u2019m acting to protect the community,\u201d Sun said. On May 3, Tron DAO told its 1.7 million X followers that its account had been compromised. Tron explained that during the breach, an unauthorized party posted a malicious crypto token contract address, sent direct messages, and followed unfamiliar accounts.<br \/>\n\u201cIf you received a DM from our account on May 2, please delete it and consider it the work of the attacker.\u201d<br \/>\nIn response to Sun\u2019s claims of inaction, Xu publicly called on him to provide a screenshot showing when and where the law enforcement request was made.<br \/>\nThe Tron incident is one of several recent security breaches involving high-profile crypto accounts on X.<br \/>\nRelated: Over 14,500 Tron addresses at risk of silent hijacking<br \/>\nKaito AI, an artificial intelligence-powered platform that aggregates crypto data to provide market analysis for users, and its founder, Yu Hu, were the victims of an X social media hack on March 15. The hackers opened up a short position on KAITO tokens before posting that the Kaito wallets were compromised and advised users that their funds were not safe.<br \/>\nJust a few weeks before, on Feb. 26, The Pump.fun X account was compromised to promote a fake governance token called \u201cPUMP\u201d and other fraudulent coins.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the X account of UK member of Parliament and Leader of the House of Commons, Lucy Powell, was hacked on April 15 to promote a scam crypto token.<br \/>\nMagazine: Crypto wanted to overthrow banks, now it\u2019s becoming them in stablecoin fight<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/crypto-exchange-okx-star-xu-tron-justin-sun-freeze-notice?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsOKX founder and CEO Star Xu has publicly defended the crypto exchange after Tron founder Justin Sun accused it of failing to act on a law enforcement request&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128547"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}