Hackers Take Credit for X Cyberattack

More information is coming to light on the cyberattack that caused outages of the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) on Monday, but much of the information is difficult to verify.

There appear to have been several attack waves and tens of thousands of users have reported X outages, according to the DownDetector service. The disruptions were likely caused by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

As users reported being unable to access X, Elon Musk blamed the outages on a “massive cyberattack”.

“We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources,” Musk said. “Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.”

Musk later said on Fox Business that the incident was still being investigated, but noted that IP addresses involved in the attack originated in the Ukraine area.

However, Reuters learned from an unnamed source in the internet infrastructure industry that traffic from ...