Elon Musk says X hit by ‘cyber-attack’ as hundreds report outage | EUROtoday

Elon Musk says X (previously Twitter) has been hit by a “massive cyber-attack” on Monday, after hundreds of customers within the UK and US reported outages.

Mr Musk, who has owned the platform since late 2022, urged the assault could also be ongoing.

“We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources,” he wrote in a publish on X.

He urged that “either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved”.

The BBC has approached X for remark.

It comes after platform outage monitor Downdetector mentioned it had seen tens of hundreds of stories from US customers of technical points affecting the platform on Monday.

There had been greater than 8,000 outage stories from UK customers shortly earlier than 14:00 GMT, following a quick however notable surge of stories on Monday morning.

Many customers making an attempt to entry the platform and refresh feeds on its app and desktop website throughout Monday’s outages had been met with a loading icon.

Alp Toker, director of Netblocks, which displays the connectivity of net companies, mentioned its personal metrics urged the outages might nicely be linked to a cyber-attack.

“What we’ve been seeing is consistent with what we’ve seen in past denial of service attacks, rather than a configuration or coding error in the platform,” he advised BBC News.

He mentioned the organisation has seen a number of main outages spanning greater than six hours on Monday, “each having global impact”.

“This is amongst the longest X/Twitter outages we’ve tracked in terms of duration, and the pattern is consistent with a denial of service attack targeting X’s infrastructure at scale,” he added.

A distributed denial of service (DDoS) assault is an try to take an internet site offline by overwhelming it with web visitors.

Mr Musk has beforehand claimed that the platform has been focused by DDoS assaults, however these haven’t been confirmed.