Elon Musk’s X was inaccessible on Monday Morning for Thousands of Users, Including Many in the Us After About Eight Hours of Outages, Musk posted That the platform is facing a “Massive cyberattack.”
“There was (stil is) a massive cyberattack against š¯•¸. We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Eather a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved. Tracingā€¦ ā€¯He Wrote on X.
Thought there is no evidence of musk’s claims beyond his word, it’s not farfetched to believe Musk has become more prominent and controversial than ever under President Donald Trump’s Second Administration, AS He Has Personally Led His Team Called “Doge” Through haphazard cuts To Government Funding, Jobs, and International Aid Programs.
Tesla stores have also also been subject to protests Over Musk’s outsized, Uneelected Role In the Government, with the Stock of Musk’s Car Company Dropping as well.
According to DowndetectorA website that tracks users’ reports of online outages, x went down for some users Around 5:30 AM ET, with more than 20,000 users reporting outages. Thought these outages see to have resolved after about an hour, the outages returned Around 9:30 AM, with more than 40,000 users reporting issues. Thought some users were able to access x intermittent, the issues continued past 1:30 pm Et.
Occasional outages are normal for platforms of this size, but are never convenient for their users – as one user lamened in the comments on downdetector, “on day 1 of the nfl free agency! Elon fix this. “