Elon Musk says a “massive cyberattack” is responsible for the multiple X (formerly Twitter) outages that disrupted users’ access to the social media platform on Monday.
According to outage tracking site DownDetector, service on the Musk-owned social media platform was jeopardized for the first time during the early morning hours on March 10, at around 6 a.m. ET, when around 20,538 users reported problems.
DownDetector reports suggest the issues temporarily died down before spiking about four hours later, with about double the reports submitted–and nearly 40,000 accounts affected. The social media platform went dark a third time, around 12:30 p.m. ET, with approximately 26,000 reports of outages.
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After the third reported blackout, Musk, 53, took to the platform to address the ongoing issues.
Reposting a tweet that suggested the “downtime” issues were the “result of an attack on X,” the billionaire father of over a dozen explained that “There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against 𝕏.”
While cyberattacks are apparently quite common for the tech company, this one was different–at least, according to the Trump advisor and head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
“We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources,” Musk wrote on Monday. “Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.”
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 … https://t.co/aZSO1a92no
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 10, 2025
The SpaceX exec declined to offer any further information on the alleged cyberattack and instead went right back to tweeting memes.
The reported takedown of X follows several other global protests against the controversial advisor. There were several intentionally set fires at Tesla charging stations in at least two states last week, per NBC, and at least six protesters were arrested for occupying a Tesla showroom in New York.
According to BBC, there has been a rise in vandalism reported on Teslas–and that doesn’t account for some of the celebrity Tesla owners that defaced their own cars as a symbol of protest after Musk denied making a Nazi salute at Trump’s inauguration, proceeded to fire thousands of federal workers and gained access to the sensitive personal and financial information of millions of Americans.
The apparent cyberattack wasn’t the biggest hit to Musk on Monday, as Tesla shares fell as much as 12 percent in midday trading, erasing any gains it made in the last few months, per CNN.
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