Musk Confirms X Hit By “Massive Cyberattack”
Attack” Possibly Carried Out By “Coordinated Group Or Country”
Elon Musk confirms that X was hit by a “massive cyberattack,” stating that the attack was executed with “a lot of resources” and possibly carried out by a “coordinated group and/or a country.”
Musk said his team is currently tracing the origin of the attack.
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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 ..
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Newsweek provided color on the potential hacking group:
The hacking group Dark Storm Team has reportedly claimed responsibility for a DDoS attack on the platform, according to a public Telegram post.
Earlier…
X appears to be back online after a 30 to 45-minute outage that caused a nationwide disruption. Details remain scarce, but as of 1028 ET, X feeds are operational again on various parts of the US East Coast, including DC to NYC.
Neither Elon Musk nor X has commented on the disruption or the cause of the outage.
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The website tracker DownDetector shows a surge in users reporting that Elon Musk’s X platform is down.
DownDetector users comment on the outage…
Here on the US East Coast, the X-Pro tool is down.
Outages and disruptions on X started about 10-15 minutes ago (or about 0945 ET).
It has been a while since X suffered nationwide disruptions.
The outage comes hours after Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the massive USAID cut…
*This is a developing story…
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