Elon Musk said that X (East Twitter) was hit by a large-scale cyber attack on Monday, suggesting that a large, coordinated group or even a nation-state could follow it. Three outages were done throughout the day in this attack, each for about an hour.
“(Still still) was a large -scale cyber attack against the X. We attack every day, but it was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country. Tracing …,” Elon Musk posted on X.
There (still) was against a large scale cyber attack.
We attack every day, but it was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country.
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– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 10, 2025
According to the detector, the platform faced three outage throughout the day, with around 3:00 pm around 3:00 pm with about 2,200 reports from Indian users, with 1,500 reports, growing again at 7:30 pm, and later continued at 9:00 pm as users continued to face further access issues.
Elon Musk acquired X at $ 44 billion in 2022. In 2023, he became the first person to reach 200 million followers on X.
The tracking website revealed that about 52 percent of the problems were related to the website, 41 percent for the app and 8 percent were to be done with server connection problems.
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