- Elon Musk claims X suffered a “massive cyber-attack,” possibly involving a coordinated group or nation.
- Thousands of users in the UK and US reported outages, with technical issues lasting several hours.
- Experts suggest the disruption aligns with a large-scale denial of service (DDoS) attack on X’s infrastructure.
Elon Musk has claimed that X (formerly Twitter) suffered a “massive cyber-attack” on Monday, following widespread outages reported by users in the UK and US.
Musk, who has owned the platform since late 2022, suggested the attack was highly coordinated and possibly ongoing.
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“We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources,” he wrote on X, adding that “either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.”
The outage-tracking service Downdetector recorded tens of thousands of technical issue reports from US users, while more than 8,000 UK users experienced disruptions shortly before 14:00 GMT. Many affected users encountered loading errors when trying to access the platform on both the mobile app and desktop site.
Alp Toker, director of internet monitoring group Netblocks, suggested the outage patterns were consistent with a large-scale cyber-attack.
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“This aligns with past denial of service attacks rather than a platform configuration or coding error,” he told BBC News. He noted that several prolonged disruptions, each lasting more than six hours, had a global impact.
A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack floods a website with excessive traffic, rendering it inaccessible. While Musk has previously claimed X has been targeted by such attacks, official confirmation has not been provided.
