Diamond Member Pelican Press 0 Posted March 10, 2025 Diamond Member Share Posted March 10, 2025 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Elon Musk says a ‘massive cyberattack’ is to blame for X being down Perhaps like the loser of the proposed cage fight between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg that’s never, ever happening, X has been down and out for much of Monday. Down Detector saw a spike in outage reports from users between around 5:30 AM and 6:30AM ET. There were two more prolonged spikes, denoting more significant outages, later in the morning. Team Engadget has not been able to view tweets on X for the most part, save for a few brief moments when the service showed signed of life. The platform’s owner, Elon Musk, claimed that there was a “massive cyberattack against X” with either a “large, coordinated group and/or a country” behind the claimed assault. Musk didn’t provide any evidence, but experts told This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up that his assertions were plausible. “It’s difficult to be certain, but given the pattern of three observed outages, a denial service attack targeting X’s infrastructure can’t be ruled out,” Isik Mater, director of research at NetBlocks, which tracks internet connectivity around the world, told the outlet. “It’s certainly one of the longest X/ This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up outages in our records.” This isn’t the first time that Musk has blamed a major attack for X’s technical issues. He did This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up when when he held a livestreamed audio chat with President Donald Trump last year and the broadcast wasn’t working. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up #Elon #Musk #massive #cyberattack #blame This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up 0 Quote Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/239205-elon-musk-says-a-%E2%80%98massive-cyberattack%E2%80%99-is-to-blame-for-x-being-down/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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