Elon Musk cyber-attack on X was connected to Ukraine

Elon Musk: "There was a cyberattack on X today, which took it down and may have had a foreign origin. It's a big story. Do you want to comment on it for a moment?

Well, we're not exactly sure what happened, but there was a massive cyberattack attempting to take down the X system, with IP addresses originating from the Ukraine area."

Speculation about the cause of the outages began to circulate, with some users suggesting that X might be the target of a series of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. These attacks involve flooding a website or service with an overwhelming amount of traffic, rendering it inaccessible to legitimate users. A group known as “Dark Storm Team” claimed responsibility for the attacks on social media, but these claims have not been independently verified.

In a post that remains hard to reach on X, Elon Musk wrote: “There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X. We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved. Tracing…”

After approximately 45 minutes, the second outage appeared to be resolved, and users were once again able to access X. However, the relief was temporary, as a third outage struck the platform just 30 minutes later. Once again, users found themselves unable to load the X website or access the service through the mobile app.