Elon Musk blamed widespread disruptions on his social media platform X on a \u201cmassive cyberattack,\u201d which he claimed was orchestrated by a \u201clarge, coordinated group\u201d or country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tens of thousands of users globally reported intermittent outages on X on Monday, according to the monitoring\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0Downdetector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n New posts were failing to load for users in countries including the US, UK, France and India at various points throughout the day. The service disruptions lasted a few minutes each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Musk later acknowledged that the platform had experienced a site-wide disruption. \u201cWe get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources,\u201d he wrote\u00a0in a post on X<\/a>, the site formerly known as Twitter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In an interview on Fox Business, he said the cyberattack was intended to take down X \u201cwith IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dark Storm, a pro-Palestinian \u201chacktivist\u201d group, took credit for the attack via its Telegram page, but has not provided proof that it was behind the disruptions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A representative for Dark Storm told Bloomberg News that the attack was part of a wider hacktivist effort against Israel.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n A spokesperson for X did not respond to multiple requests for comment. It is difficult to quickly determine the source of a cyber incident, as attackers often use techniques to mask their location. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In the case of distributed denial-of-service attacks, or DDoS, the attacks are carried out by compromised devices controlled by the hackers, not the hackers themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n A person familiar with the investigation confirmed that the disruption was caused by a cyberattack. It doesn\u2019t appear to be a DDoS attack, but the inquiry is ongoing, the person said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n