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Elon Musk: "There was a massive cyber attack to try and bring down X with ip addresses originating in the Ukraine area"

Social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, suffered a brief outage before coming back online. The outage lasted around 20 minutes before the site was restored to full functions. --- X has faced increased scrutiny after its purchase by Elon Musk, who instituted major changes in the company, including removing around 80 percent of the original staff. Critics of Musk have blamed failures of the site on Musk's leadership, meaning this latest outage could be linked to him. A wave of reports to the social media tracker site DownDetector shows that a wave of reports for Elon Musk's social...

Hi everyone. Is anyone else having problems with X/Twitter? I cannot seem to log in on either computer. It just keeps telling me that "something went wrong." My account does that periodically. I'm thinking of deactivating it.

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X just got hammered in a way we haven’t seen before. On Monday, the platform experienced a coordinated cyberattack so massive that it crippled services for hours. Elon Musk wasted no time, quickly confirming that the scale of the attack suggests it was likely carried out by either a powerful group or a nation-state. The implications of this are chilling. Reports started pouring in around 5:41 a.m., then surged again at 10:11 a.m., and once more at 11:11 a.m. Over 150,000 users reported issues. It wasn’t a minor outage. Something big was happening behind the scenes. You don’t get this...

(formerly Twitter) is experiencing its third major outage of the day, with users reporting widespread login and loading issues. The hacking group Dark Storm Team has reportedly claimed responsibility for a DDoS attack on the platform, according to a public Telegram post. Newsweek has reached out to the X via email for comment on the matter. What to know: More than 40,000 reports flooded Downdetector during the second outage. The current outage peaked at 29,143 reports and is now slightly declining. Dark Storm Team claims to have targeted X with a cyberattack. Users are unable to access the site, with...