X Social Media Platform Hit by Apparent DDoS Attack

'Dark Storm Team' Takes Responsibility for 4 Major Outages on Monday David Perera (@daveperera) • March 10, 2025

Repeated outages on social media platform X - formerly Twitter - on Monday are the result of a distributed denial of service attack, asserted platform owner Elon Musk in a sporadically available tweet.

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The social media platform, conjoined with Musk's public persona since mercurial multi-billionaire took it private in October 2022 for $44 billion, experienced four significant outages, according to disruptions reported by disgruntled users to Downdetector. A heat map shows reported outages concentrated in the U.S. Eastern Seaboard and coastal California.

"This was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved," Musk tweeted Monday afternoon. Musk in the past has attributed technical difficulties on the platform to hacks with little supporting evidence ...