Elon Musk stated that X was targeted by a big cyberattack on Monday, as problems afflicted users of the site formerly known as Twitter. “There was (and still is) a massive cyberattack against X,” Musk wrote in a post on the network. Musk alleged a cyberattack for crashing the site last year, but provided no evidence.
Musk’s tweet on Monday contained an X post from a DogeDesigner account, which some on Reddit suspected was a puppet of the entrepreneur himself. The post mentioned protests against the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which Trump delegated to Musk, as well as vandalism of Tesla stores, implying that a cyberattack may spark another round of hostility towards Musk.
Musk is CEO of Tesla, his electric car startup. “It would take a lot of (money) to do an attack of this magnitude,” stated a post in the exchange from the Jammies account. “Who has the resources to fund this?”
Musk also claimed that such an attack would require massive resources, implying that it was the work of a country or huge coordinated organisation. Outages on the X social media platform prevented tens of thousands of users from accessing the site, according to monitoring.
According to the Downdetector tracking site, reports of X issues began early Monday morning, with users in Asia, Europe, and North America reporting inability to access the platform. At its peak, more than 40,000 people reported outages, according to the website. The bulk of the reports came from customers trying to use X on smartphones, but people on web browsers also reported the service offline.
“Twitter keeps breaking?” enquired a post by @Lalaslovely in the Downdetector discussion section. After Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion in late 2022, the majority of employees departed or were fired, prompting worries about whether the company was adequately staffed to ensure its safety and stability.
