Elon Musk Claims X Targeted by 'Massive Cyberattack' as Outages Disrupt Service

    

Elon Musk Claims X Targeted by 'Massive Cyberattack' as Outages Disrupt Service

Elon Musk has claimed that X (formerly Twitter) was targeted by a "massive cyberattack" following a series of outages on Monday that affected thousands of users.

"There was (and still is) a massive cyberattack," Musk wrote on the platform as reports of disruptions began to surface early in the morning.

According to Downdetector, users first began reporting issues at around 5:30 a.m., with the outage briefly subsiding before resurfacing at approximately 9:30 a.m. and again just before 11 a.m. At the peak of the disruption, Downdetector received roughly 40,000 reports from frustrated users.

Musk later expanded on the situation, suggesting that the scale of the attack was significant. "We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources," he wrote. "Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved. Tracing..."

A sustained outage that lasted at least an hour began around noon, with the most significant disruptions impacting users along the U.S. coasts. Downdetector reported that 56% of the issues were related to the X app, while 33% were linked to the website itself.

This incident follows a similar disruption in March 2023 when the platform—then known as Twitter—suffered a range of glitches, including broken links, login failures, and images not loading for users, which lasted for over an hour.

As X works to resolve the current issues, Musk's comments raise questions about the ongoing vulnerability of major social platforms to cyber threats.