Perhaps like the loser of the proposed cage fight between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg that’s never, ever happening, X has been down and out for much of Monday. Down Detector saw a spike in outage reports from users between around 5:30 AM and 6:30AM ET. There were two more prolonged spikes, denoting more significant outages, later in the morning. Team Engadget has not been able to view tweets on X for the most part, save for a few brief moments when the service showed signed of life.
\nThe platform’s owner, Elon Musk, claimed that there was a “massive cyberattack against X” with either a “large, coordinated group and\/or a country” behind the claimed assault. Musk didn’t provide any evidence, but experts told NBC News that his assertions were plausible.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s difficult to be certain, but given the pattern of three observed outages, a denial service attack targeting X\u2019s infrastructure can\u2019t be ruled out,\u201d Isik Mater, director of research at NetBlocks, which tracks internet connectivity around the world, told the outlet. \u201cIt\u2019s certainly one of the longest X\/Twitter outages in our records.\u201d
\nThis isn’t the first time that Musk has blamed a major attack for X’s technical issues. He did the same thing last year when when he held a livestreamed audio chat with President Donald Trump last year and the broadcast wasn’t working.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/social-media\/elon-musk-says-a-massive-cyberattack-is-to-blame-for-x-being-down-184148605.html?src=rss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Perhaps like the loser of the proposed cage fight between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg that’s never, ever happening, X has been down and out for much of Monday. Down Detector saw a spike in outage reports from users between … Continue reading