Elon Musk, the owner of X (formerly Twitter), has claimed that his social media platform suffered intermittent service outages throughout Monday as the result of a “massive” targeted cyber attack.
The US billionaire and leader of DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) also claimed that Ukraine may have been responsible after links to Ukrainian IP addresses were discovered.
“We’re not sure exactly what happened but there was a massive cyber attack to try and bring down the X system with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area,” Musk claimed on Fox News.
Musk has recently been critical of the Ukrainian government as US-Ukrainian tensions rise. The richest man in the world stated that the at-war nation’s “entire front line” would fold if he were to disable his Starlink satellite communications service.
A total of three outages occurred during the social network titan’s disturbance on Monday, with one lasting around two hours.
The platform was unresponsive for many users; tweets failed to load, and a “something went wrong” message appeared, with users asked to try reloading their browser to fix the issue.
Downdetector, a website that monitors site/platform outages, showed thousands of reports detailing at least two outages for X on Monday, with the majority occurring on the network’s mobile app.
A notorious hacking group known as Dark Storm claimed responsibility for the shutdown, but this has not yet been verified by Musk.
“We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources,” Musk tweeted on X. “Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.”
Musk, the co-founder of EV giant Tesla, has not yet provided any evidence for his claims, with the tweet a response to a cryptocurrency influencer’s suggestion that the outage followed other opposition to Musk’s enterprises.
Just the previous week, nationwide protests against the Musk-lead DOGE initiative unfolded in the US, along with a string of vandalism incidents against a Colorado-based Tesla dealership.
Other issues facing Musk’s businesses and initiatives include a SpaceX mid-flight rocket explosion (with debris falling near the Bahamas), soured Tesla-owners deciding to sell up, and Tesla’s stock price dropping by over fifteen percent.
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