- X experiences outages due to cyberattacks
- Elon Musk confirmed the attacks and marked them as probably coordinated
- Outages started 5:30 AM, continued 8:30 PM – 10:30 PM
X experiences outages due to cyberattacks, and most of them reported 5:30 AM, and continued 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM. Elon Musk confirmed the attacks, marked them as exceptionally massive, and probably coordinated by a group.
Details on Attacks on X and Resulted Outages
So, according to Downdetector, the short-term outages started as early as yesterday, around 2 PM but didn’t last long. However, the biggest outages were yet to come, and at around 5:30 AM recorded a peak of 39195 reports, followed by a slight downturn and new peaks of outages from 8:30 PM – 10:30 PM with reports 26878, 33833, and 22754 by the end.
The platform has not been hacked, at least at the moment there are no indications or statements to that effect, and it looks more like a powerful DDoS attack. Elon Musk confirmed that attacks on X, such attacks happen daily but this one is exceptionally massive and probably coordinated by a group.
But the work on restoring is ongoing, and now the results are much better. X is mostly available and Downdetector shows almost 2000 outages reports (which of course is not the absence of them, but already better with x10 fewer reports than it was).
Conclusion
X is one of the key platforms behind one of the key figures in the current Donald Trump administration – resistance to them and their measures is quite expected.
However, who exactly is behind the attacks, and thus the exact motivation of the attackers still remains ambiguous, and more details are likely to await us very soon. Stay tuned for updates and be aware of the highly dynamic technological, blockchain, and crypto landscape.
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