Washington DC: After X was hit by multiple outages on Monday, tech billionaire Elon Musk claimed that his social media platform was hit by a “massive cyberattack" and also hinted that these attacks were linked with Ukraine. On Monday X users faced troubles as the social media platform was repeatedly going offline, getting restored and crashing again on Monday.
"We're not sure exactly what happened, but there was a massive cyberattack to bring down the X system with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area," Nusk said in an interview to Fox News. When asked about the current status of the social emdia platform, Musk confiremd that it is working fine now.
on Monday, Musk termed the X outage as "a massive 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," he tweeted.
On Monday, a significant outage hit X, with thousands of users worldwide reporting issues, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages. The outage peaked at 3 pm with 2,612 users reporting issues, followed by another spike between 6 pm and 7:30 pm, affecting 1,312 users. As of the latest update, the platform remains unstable.
Downdetector only reports an incident when the number of problem reports is significantly higher than the typical volume for that time of day.
Musk acquired X in 2022 for USD 44 billion. He is also the chief of the US President Donald Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). This department focuses on cutting government spending.
