Musk Under Attack? Huge X Cyberattack, Tesla And DOGE Protests Say Yes

If you were frustrated by an inability to doomscroll Xwitter on your lunch break, don't worry, because you're not alone. The site has been suffering intermittent connectivity issues all morning. What's the deal? Did Musk forget to pay some bill? Has X's famously skeletonized staff failed to keep the ship righted? Is the Internet at large dying?

According to the X-Tesla-Starlink-SpaceX man himself, the site has actually been weathering the effects of "a massive cyberattack" today. Musk continues, stating that X is attacked every day—par for the course for any site as big as it is—but that today's attack was performed "with a lot of resources." He remarks that an attack of the size would require "a large, coordinated group and/or a country" to perform.

State-backed cyber attacks are certainly a thing, but they're usually more discreet than a large-scale denial ...