Elon Musk: X hit by massive cyberattack
The billionaire claims a well-funded group or state actor is behind the ongoing disruption.
The social network X (formerly Twitter) has been experiencing a significant cyberattack in recent hours, according to the platform’s owner, billionaire Elon Musk.
Since early Monday, X has been intermittently suffering from major disruptions, preventing users from accessing the network. During these outages, X's website has been either completely unavailable or failing to display content, while the platform's mobile apps have been unable to send or receive updates.
Musk now claims that the issue is not an internal malfunction but an external cyberattack. "There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against 𝕏. We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved. Tracing …"
The first reports of a widespread outage on X emerged early Monday. Initially, the issue appeared to be resolved after a short period, but in the following hours, X experienced two additional large-scale disruptions, making the platform inaccessible.
