On March 10, 2025, X encountered significant outages across various regions, prompting Elon Musk to suggest that these issues were the result of a substantial cyberattack. Users around the globe experienced outages, with reports of varying severity throughout the day. Musk emphasized the coordinated nature of the attack, suggesting it involved extensive resources. While users speculated about possible hacking groups like Dark Storm being responsible, Musk refrained from confirming any specific group. The outages peaked during the morning hours, highlighting vulnerabilities in X's infrastructure amid ongoing attacks.
On Monday afternoon, X appeared to be running smoothly, and Musk said the issues were the result of the platform having been targeted.
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.
Elon Musk stated that the international outage of X was likely the work of a large group or a state-sanctioned cyber attack.
The outages hit their peaks at 4:45 a.m., 8:54 a.m., and 11:54 a.m. The last outage lasted well over two hours.
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