{"id":54878,"date":"2025-03-12T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=54878"},"modified":"2025-03-12T13:00:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:00:01","slug":"elon-musk-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=54878","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says …>>>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Elon Musk says X is the target of a \u2018massive cyberattack\u2019 following multiple outages .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk has claimed that his social media platform X \u2013 formerly known as Twitter \u2013 is currently the target of a \u201cmassive cyberattack\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Users have struggled to log into the social media platform following multiple outages on Monday (March 10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In response, Musk has shared a tweet explaining that X was \u2013 and \u201cstill is\u201d \u2013 the victim of a \u201cmassive cyberattack\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X,\u201d Musk posted on the platform. \u201cWe get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEither a large, coordinated group and\/or a country is involved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The platform suffered at least three major disruptions throughout the day, with the first occurring in the early hours of Monday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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X users reported being unable to load the site, receiving error messages instead. According to social media outage tracker DownDetector, the first outage peaked with around 17,000 reports of X being down in the U.S., followed by 40,000 during the second outage and 35,000 in the latest wave of disruptions, per Sky News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Musk later shared a tweet agreeing with a user who claimed that somebody is attempting to \u201csilence\u201d him and the platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Musk, who purchased Twitter for $44 billion in 2022, did not specify the exact nature of the attack but suggested it may have involved significant resources, potentially hinting at a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This type of cyberattack overwhelms a site\u2019s servers with massive amounts of traffic, causing it to crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While X has experienced outages before, many were linked to the sweeping changes and layoffs that followed Musk\u2019s takeover of the company. However, this incident coincided with a broader market downturn that saw Tesla, Musk\u2019s electric vehicle company, take a major hit in stock value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adding to the turbulence, the cyberattack followed a series of physical attacks on Tesla showrooms across Europe and the U.S. over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Musk, a divisive figure in global politics, has faced mounting criticism, particularly after his appointment as head of the controversial \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge), a role focused on cutting U.S. government jobs and spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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