18 hours Ago By Varun Godinho
Elon Musk, the owner of X (formerly Twitter) has attributed multiple outages over the last few hours at the social media platform to “a massive cyberattack”. The first outage appears to have occurred around 8.30pm AEDT on Monday night, according to DownDetector, with a more significant spikes in reports occurring around 1am AEDT earlier on Tuesday morning.
The outage affected users in several countries including Australia, the US, the UK, and Canada across both mobiles and desktops. More than 40,000 Downdetector reports poured in from users during the second outage — with some complaining that they couldn’t even get the X website to load. “There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against .
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 .
..” posted Musk.
While appearing on Fox Business Network later in the afternoon, Musk reportedly told Larry Kudlow that they “still aren’t sure exactly what happened,” but they had traced it to “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area.” During the outage, an error message kept on appearing on the web version of X that stated: “Something went wrong. Try reloading”.
Occasionally users also reported seeing Cloudflare error pages noting a Host Error connecting to X.com. ChannelNews can now access X once again and Musk has taken to the platform once again to continue posting his DOGE updates.
Musk acquired Twitter in October 2022 for A$70.11 billion and laid off about 80% of its employees. In May 2024, the website officially became X.
com with the twitter.com domain being discarded..
