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Elon Musk alerts X users to 'major cyberattack' and points the finger at Ukraine

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Published 09:42 11 Mar 2025 GMT

Elon Musk alerts X users to 'major cyberattack' and points the finger at Ukraine

Thousands of reports flooded Downdetector

Rebekah Jordan

Rebekah Jordan

Elon Musk has blamed yesterday's widespread X outage on a major cyberattack - suggesting Ukraine could be to blame.

Yesterday (10 March), the owner and CEO of X claimed that the platform (formerly known as Twitter) was targeted in a 'massive cyber-attack' that left many users unable to access the social media platform.

Thousands of users reported issues like posts failing to load and the site becoming unresponsive. Many Tweets that failed to appear displayed a message that 'something went wrong' and told users to try reloading.

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According to Downdetector, a self-reporting website that monitors outages online, outage reports first spiked around 5:45 am and then again at midday. Thousands of reports were made throughout the day, with most of them occurring on X's mobile app.

“We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources,” the Tesla CEO posted on his platform. “Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.”

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However, the tech billionaire did not provide any evidence to back up his claims.

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In fact, his post was responding to a cryptocurrency influencer who suggested the outage was part of a series of attacks on Musk’s enterprises.

"First, protests against DOGE. Then, Tesla stores were attacked. Now, X is down," they wrote.

"I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that this downtime is the result of an attack on X."

Musk also replied 'Yes' to comments on his post stating that people want to 'silence you and this platform'.

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However, no additional information has been provided about the service disruption or whether it was the result of a deliberate attack.

Later that day, the world's richest man restated his claim of a cyber-attack during an interview on Fox Business. He also asserted that the attack had Ukrainian links.

SAUL LOEB / Contributor / Getty
SAUL LOEB / Contributor / Getty

“We’re not sure exactly what happened but there was a massive cyber-attack to try and bring down the X system with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area,” the SpaceX founder explained.

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Tensions have been growing between Musk, who is also Trump's close ally, and the Ukrainian government.

Over the weekend, he stated that the country’s 'entire front line' would collapse if he turned off his Starlink satellite communications provider. He also called the US senator Mark Kelly a 'traitor' after the lawmaker posted about his visit to Ukraine.

Not to mention, Musk has a track record of linking technical issues to cyberattacks. When his conversation with Donald Trump on X was delayed by 42 minutes back in August 2024, he suggested a '100% probability of DDOS attacks' at the time.

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