Tron blockchain attack halted block creation for two hours

Tron Blockchain was attacked during the update in the morning 2 November - the creation of blocks has stopped for two hours. The developers eliminated the vulnerability and restored the network work.

According to Tron Director General Justin San, in a series of records on Twitter (Justin Sun), during Tron blockchain updates to version 4.1 The main network "was attacked by a malicious contract". According to San, The attacker initiated harmful transactions, As a result, "the super representative suspended the creation of blocks".

Super followers – Blockchain administrators Tron. They control the creation of new blocks and are elected tokens holders. As noted by San, The attacker wanted to "make a profit from the suspension of the creation of blocks", Without specifying, how exactly the hacker planned to do this.

The Tron community "immediately reacted", discovering the problem and eliminating it, and also worked with super -representative over the update of the nodes, writes San. The normal operation of the blockchain was restored after about three and a half hours.

"After 08:29 The main network gradually resumed the creation of blocks, and, finally, The entire network has returned to the normal state in 9:40. Data in the chain remain untouched, And user assets are in full safety ", – wrote a dignity on Twitter.

According to Justin Sana, the reflected attack proves, that “Tron is a decentralized network with the greatest stability and possibilities of protection against attacks in the industry”.

The attack influenced the price of the coin Tron, which has decreased over the last day 8% According to Coinmarketcap. Recall, that Justin San announced
launch of the version of Tron 4.x this summer.