Elon Musk blames cyberattack for X outages

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X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, experienced significant outages on Monday morning, with reports of issues peaking between 5:30 AM and 6:30 AM ET. Users faced difficulties accessing tweets for most of the day. Musk attributed the outages to a "massive cyberattack" allegedly orchestrated by a large group or a country. He did not provide evidence for this claim, but experts noted that a denial of service attack could be a possibility. This incident marks one of the longest outages for X, similar to previous claims Musk made regarding technical issues linked to cyberattacks.


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