{"id":31099,"date":"2020-11-02T13:15:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T11:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=31099"},"modified":"2025-08-28T02:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:02:07","slug":"justin-sun-details-major-attack-on-the-tron-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/justin-sun-details-major-attack-on-the-tron-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Sun details major attack on the TRON network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the TRON project, Justin Sun, said the mainnet came under a large-scale attack that halted block production.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">(1\/5) Regarding the situation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TRON?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TRON<\/a> network on November 2nd:<\/p>\n<p>During the 4.1 version upgrade period, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TRON?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TRON<\/a> Mainnet was attacked by a malicious contract on 2020.11.02 at 06:14 (HKT).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Justin Sun? (@justinsuntron) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/justinsuntron\/status\/1323168138330992641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to him, an attacker exploited a malicious contract to attack TRON during the protocol upgrade to version 4.1. The attack occurred on November 2 at 01:14 (MSK).<\/p>\n<p>The hacker exploited the contract developer&#8217;s privileges and initiated malicious transactions, forcing the super representatives to halt block production. In Sun&#8217;s view, the attacker aimed to profit from it.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The community reacted immediately, localising and promptly fixing the issue, while also working with the super representatives on updating the nodes,&#8221; wrote the founder of TRON.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Block production in the network gradually resumed after 3:29, with TRON&#8217;s operations fully normalised by 4:40.<\/p>\n<p>Sun said that data on the blockchain and users\u2019 assets were fully secure.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"D33cR5khFO\">\n<p>What is the TRON cryptocurrency (TRX)?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u00abWhat is the TRON cryptocurrency (TRX)?\u00bb \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/cryptorium\/chto-takoe-tron\/embed#?secret=e5YI5oCabh#?secret=D33cR5khFO\" data-secret=\"D33cR5khFO\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In July, the TRON protocol upgrade to version 4.0 took place.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Forklog&#8217;s news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the TRON project, Justin Sun, said the mainnet came under a large-scale attack that halted block production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1302,951],"class_list":["post-31099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-justin-sun","tag-tron"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"24","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31101,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31099\/revisions\/31101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}