X hit by major cyberattack, claims Musk

Tesla and Space X owner Elon Musk on Tuesday confirmed that his social platform X (twitter) has been hit by a major cyberattack as outages plagued users of the platform.

“There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X,” Musk said in a post on the platform.

He blamed a cyberattack for crashing the site last year when an interview with Donald Trump was to be streamed. Although, he didn’t provide any evidence to back his claim.

In his post Monday, Musk included an X post from a DogeDesigner account that some on Reddit speculated could be a puppet of the tycoon himself.

The post suggested a cyberattack could signal another burst of animosity towards Musk.

“It would take a lot of (money) to do an attack of this magnitude,” read a post in the exchange by the account of Jammies. “Who has the resources to fund this?”

Musk also maintained such an attack would take tremendous resources, speculating it was the work of a country or large coordinated group.

Outages on the X left tens of thousands of users unable to access the site, according to monitors.

According to Downdetctor, the outage occurred in early hours of Monday, which also affected the users in Asia, Europe, and North America. They were unable to access the platform during the claimed attack.

At the peak, more than 40,000 people reported outages, the site said.

The bulk of the reports were from people trying to use X on smartphones, but people on web browsers also reported the service down.

“Twitter keeps breaking?” asked a post by @Lalaslovely in the Downdetector chat section.