X outages reportedly caused by massive cyberattack

Social media platform X was reportedly hit by a massive cyberattack on Monday, causing intermittent outages. While owner Elon Musk has cited the attack as the cause, a hacking group known as Dark Storm Team has claimed responsibility.

Based on data from Downdetector, the site had been up and down throughout the morning. The first outage started around 6 a.m. ET, with more than 20,000 reports that X was down. But then reports popped up again around 9 a.m. ET and then more dramatically around 10 a.m. ET, with more than 40,000 people chiming in.

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By 11 a.m. ET, the reports had dipped, indicating that this second outage may have been settled. But by 11:30 a.m. ET, the report count climbed once again, hitting ...