Elon Musk’s X faces a ‘massive cyberattack’, platform reports global outage for the third time

The social media platform, X, confronted a “large cyberattack”, firm’s CEO Elon Musk confirmed because the platform skilled its third main international outage in a single day, stopping customers from logging in or accessing their feeds.

Musk alleged that the incident concerned a “coordinated group” or a “nation”.He responded to a person on X who talked about protests in opposition to DOGE and assaults on Tesla shops, suggesting that the potential of this downtime being an “assault” on X couldn’t be dominated out.

Based on real-time monitoring web site Downdetector, over 40,000 reviews had been recorded throughout the second outage, with customers encountering points on each the X web site and cellular app.

The primary disruption happened round 3:30 PM with over 2,500 reviews detected in India, adopted by the same outage having over 1300 reviews, recorded at 7:30 PM.

The third wave of disruptions noticed greater than 1,000 reviews from India alone as of 9:38 PM (IST), with customers throughout the US, the UK, and different areas additionally affected.

The corporate has but to challenge an announcement concerning the technical glitch, and the reason for the outages stays unclear.

Pissed off customers have taken to different social media platforms to share their experiences, elevating considerations about X’s stability.