Elon Musk alleges cyberattack on X, says 'large group or country likely involved'
PTC News Desk: A significant outage hit X, a social media platform owned by Elon Musk, with thousands of users worldwide reporting issues, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages.
The outage peaked at 3 pm with 2,612 users reporting issues, followed by another spike between 6 pm and 7:30 pm, affecting 1,312 users. As of the latest update, the platform remains unstable.
Meanwhile Elon Musk has alleged a "massive cyberattack" against the platform. Musk further alleged that this 'attack' has been carried out with a "lot of resources" and a large, coordinated "group and/or country" involved.
"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," he wrote on X.
He made the statement in response to a user on X, who cited the protests against DOGE and the targeting of Tesla stores, and said the possibility of this downtime being an 'attack' on X, can't be ruled out.
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