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X went down for users across the globe Monday morning, an outage owner Elon Musk blamed on a “massive” hack.
“There was a massive cyberattack against X,” Musk wrote Monday in a post on the social media site. “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 …”
It’s not immediately clear who or what group was responsible for the cyberattack against X.
Musk later told Fox News that the attack could be linked to IP addresses in “the Ukraine area.”
The platform, previously known as Twitter, stopped working at around 10 a.m. UK time. At its peak, more than 40,000 people were reporting outages, according to the monitoring website DownDetector. The outage appeared to end by the end of the day.
Users of Bluesky, an X rival with similar features, also reported hundreds of users with outages Monday. A service dashboard on the Bluesky site reported all systems remained operational during the afternoon.
During the worst of the X outage, attempting to visit the website or load news posts through the app failed.
Some users were given an error message that read, “Something went wrong. Try reloading.”
Musk bought the platform in October 2022. Since then, he fired a large number of the company’s staff, which led to suggestions that it could suffer from outages.
The platform has been largely online since, however, with full outages remaining relatively rare.
Musk said X was the victim of another “massive” cyberattack last year, causing him to delay a planned live conversation with Donald Trump.
“There appears to be a massive DDOS [distributed denial of service] attack on X,” he wrote at the time. “Working on shutting it down. Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later.”
