Elon Musk claims cyberattack on X amid series of global outages

Elon Musk said X was hit by a massive cyberattack on Monday, suggesting that a large, coordinated group or even a nation-state could be behind it. The attack led to three outages throughout the day, each lasting nearly an hour. "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...," Elon Musk posted on X.
Thousands of users were unable to login to X through website or on their mobiles as the social media platform faced intermittent outages. According to Downdetector, the first disruption started around 3.30 pm IST, while a second spike occurred at 7 pm and a third one at 8.44 pm.The outage has affected users in major countries, including the US, India, the UK, Australia and Canada. Over 40,000 users globally have registered complaints of service interruptions.
In the United Kingdom as well, more than 10,800 users reported an outage earlier in the day. However, the cause of this said outage was not immediately clear. Several users had complained about not being able to load pages or refresh their timelines on X. They posted saying, "Twitter went down for an hour but seems to be okay now?", while another wrote, "Everyone going to X now Twitter is down".The services to the microblogging platform, however, resumed shortly after the global outage. According to Downdetector, 56 per cent of the issues were reported for the X app, while 33 per cent were reported for the website. The tracker website's data is based on reports submitted by users, which means that the actual numbers of affected numbers may vary.