Musk blames X outages on alleged ‘massive’ cyberattack therecord.media/cyberatta…

The global outages impacting the social media platform X are being caused by a cyberattack, CEO Elon Musk said Monday after the app and website were down intermittently throughout the day.

“This is amongst the longest Twitter outages tracked in terms of duration, and the pattern is consistent with a denial of service attack targeting X’s infrastructure at scale,” [Alp Toker, director of internet monitor Netblocks] said. “Latency has remained high, but services are returning to ordinary operation though it’s not clear that the issue has been fully mitigated at present.”

Musk has claimed in the past, without evidence, that cyberattacks were causing technological issues with features on the site, including when an interview with President Trump to be broadcast through the site was delayed last year.

A group of hackers named Dark Storm Team took credit for the outages on Monday afternoon. The group offers distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks for a fee and touts many of its politically-motivated attacks on its Telegram channel.