X Under Siege: Massive Cyberattack Sparks Widespread Outages as Experts Call Musk’s Ukraine Claims ‘Garbage’

Elon Musk confirmed yesterday that social media platform X was hit by a “massive cyberattack” affecting users since Monday, causing issues like the inability to view posts or profiles properly. “There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against ,” he said. “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.” DownDetector reported multiple waves of attacks, with tens of thousands of users experiencing outages. Speaking to Fox Business, Musk said the attack involved IP addresses from the Ukraine area and suggested it may have been carried out by a large group or possibly a nation-state. However, Musk has offered no evidence to back up this claim, which Professor Ciaran Martin from Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government (and former head of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre) told the BBC was “wholly unconvincing ...