Security News Elon Musk claims ‘massive cyber-attack’ caused X outages

[Viking]

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/10/elon-musk-cyberattack-x-outages

Billionaire owner claims ‘attack’ may have originated in Ukraine after site unresponsive for many uses.

Elon Musk claimed on Monday afternoon that X was targeted in a “massive cyber-attack” that resulted in the intermittent service outages that had brought down his social network throughout the day. The platform, formerly known as Twitter, had been unresponsive for many users as posts failed to load.
“We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources,” the platform’s CEO posted. “Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.”
Downdetector, a website that monitors outages on various sites and platforms, showed thousands of reports of outages that initially spiked at about 5.45am before returning to normal for a few hours. A second surge in reported outages carried on throughout midday, with the majority of them occurring on the company’s mobile app.
Tweets that failed to appear displayed a message that “something went wrong” and told users to try reloading.

Elon Musk claims ‘massive cyber-attack’ caused X outages

Billionaire owner claims ‘attack’ may have originated in Ukraine after site unresponsive for many users

www.theguardian.com

 

[oldschool]

One score for Anonymous.

 

[Sorrento]

I am in bits & pieces after reading this, I may never recover

 

[Captain Holly]

Boo Hoo

 

[Jan Willy]

There will come an executive order to prohibit cyber-attacks.

 

[Marko :)]

Totally deserved cyber-attack. X is the cancer of the web owned by a terrible human.

 

[blackice]

One score for Anonymous.

I’ve been wondering where they’ve been.

 

[oldschool]

I’ve been wondering where they’ve been.

They're busy.

 

[Sammo]

Beware the Mump