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Investing.com -- Elon Musk, the CEO of X (formerly known as Twitter), reported today that the platform experienced multiple outages due to a massive cyberattack. According to Musk, the attack was significantly larger and more coordinated than the daily cyber threats the platform usually faces.
"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 …," Musk wrote in a post.
Musk noted that the scale of the attack suggests it could be the work of a large, coordinated group or possibly even a nation. He revealed that efforts are currently underway to trace the origin of the attack.
User reports on downdetector.com, a website that tracks outages and technical issues with various online platforms, confirmed that X has been unresponsive or crashed several times throughout Monday. These incidents align with Musk’s statement about the cyberattack, indicating a correlation between the two events.
The specifics of the cyberattack, such as the methods used or the potential damage caused, have not been disclosed yet. The investigation into the source and extent of the attack is ongoing.
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