Elon Musk, CEO of X, said there is a "massive cyberattack" underway against his social platform.
He posted to the platform late Monday (Tuesday AEDT) in the United States saying, “We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources,” he said, “Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.”
The company is in the process of “tracing” the attack which left the platform unresponsive for around 40,000 users who reported they had no access to the site.
Downdetector, an outage monitoring site, received thousands of reports of outages that initially spiked around 6 am EST, returning to normal for a few hours, before a second surge was reported.
Downdetector data indicated that 56% of the problems were reported for the X app, while 33% pertained to the website.
Users saw a message that read “something went wrong” and told them to try reloading, but tweets that failed to appear.
In an interview with Fox Business, Musk said it is still uncertain who was behind the attacks but allegedly came from “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area.”
Musk has also been heavily critical of the Ukrainian government, recently claiming the country’s “entire front line” would collapse if he turned off his Starlink satellite communications provider.
The billionaire is yet to provide any evidence for who or what is responsible for the outages.
This comes after a week of resistance to the “department of government efficiency” (DOGE) which Musk leads by appointment from President Donald Trump.
Musk’s businesses and initiatives have faced major setbacks recently with one of his SpaceX rockets exploding mid-flight and raining debris near the Bahamas last Thursday.
“Tesla takedown” protests have spread nationwide targeting his car company’s dealerships over the past week.
Owners are also reportedly selling their Tesla vehicles at an alarming rate with the company’s stock price declining again on Monday, with shares in Musk's vehicle company sinking 36.66% in the past month.
At Monday’s close, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) shares were trading at US$222.15, down 15.43% from the previous close. The stock reached a day high of $253.37 and a low of $220.00. Tesla’s market capitalization stands at $696.10 billion.
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