UPDATED 10.48 a.m PT: Elon Musk has said X is under a “massive” and sustained cyberattack attack as his social media platform suffered at least three outages across Monday.
“There was (still is) a massive cyber attack against X,” Musk posted on the platform. “We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot resources. Either a large, a coordinated group and/or a country is involved.”
He was posting after the platform first went dark in the very early hours of the Los Angeles morning for about 45 minutes, and dropped out again at around 6:30 a.m. PT for another 45 minutes. It started experiencing difficulties again around 8.00 a.m. PT.
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The website downdetector.com noted a peak of 17,000 reports of X being down out of the U.S. in the first outage, followed by a peak 40,000 for the second outage and 35,000 as of 10.23 a.m PT in the latest ongoing incident.
X has yet to issue an official statement on what is going amid speculation that the platform is either the victim of a protracted cyberattack or suffering internal technical issues.
PREVIOUSLY: Elon Musk’s social media platform X appeared to suffer a 45 minute outage in some territories Monday.
Hundreds of users of X, formerly known as Twitter, reported issues with loading the site and being greeted with the error message: “something went wrong, try reloading.”
Problems were first reported from around 1.30 a.m. PT, with the site then coming back online at around 2.15 a.m PT. Social media outage monitor DownDetector showed a spike in complaints around this timeframe.
The site was running as normal from 1:15 a.m. PT.
There was no immediate explanation for the cause of the problems and X has yet to issue an official statement on what happened.
