Elon Musk says X is in midst of 'massive cyberattack'
'We get attacked everyday, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved,' says billionaire
WASHINGTON
X, the website formerly known as Twitter, is experiencing major disruptions worldwide Monday that owner and tech billionaire Elon Musk said were the result of a "major cyberattack" that could be the work of a state actor.
"There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X," Musk wrote on the website. "We get attacked everyday, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved. Tracing..."
Users started to report outages around 5:30 a.m. Eastern Time (930 GMT), and while X was able to briefly restore service to most users just after an hour later, reports surged roughly three hours later, according to the DownDetector website.
X continues to be plagued by myriad problems including pages refusing to load, and timelines failing to reload.
The source of the hack remains unknown.
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