Published on: 2025-06-23 02:50:04
Elon Musk is now claiming that bad actors in Ukraine are behind an alleged cyberattack that caused outages on his social media platform X on Monday. In an interview, Musk told Fox Business that he believes the attack came from "IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area." Musk admitted that "we don't know exactly what happened"—nodding as his comments were characterized as a suspicion and discussing no evidence—but alleged that the attackers were trying to take down the entire X platform. A
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Thousands report outages of Musk's X platform in US and UK Connection issues lasted for some users into the afternoon. There were more than 8,000 outage reports from UK users shortly before 14:00 GMT, following a brief but notable surge of reports on Monday morning. The outage came as platform monitor Downdetector said it had seen tens of thousands of reports from US users of technical issues affecting the platform. Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, experienced
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is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. The X social media platform has been up and down all morning, with brief but repeated outages preventing posts from loading across both mobile and desktop. The first widespread issue started at around 5:40AM ET this morning, according to Downdetector, leaving timelines consistently unable to refresh on mobile apps and some X users stuck in a
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If you're still using X on a regular basis, you might have noticed that access to the social media platform has been intermittent today. The service (formerly known as Twitter) appears to have suffered several outages throughout Monday. At the time of writing, they're still ongoing. The first outage seems to have occurred around 2.30 a.m. PT, according to DownDetector, with a further and more significant spike in reports occurring around 7 a.m. PT (Downdetector is owned by the same parent compa
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Perhaps like the loser of the proposed cage fight between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg that's never, ever happening, X has been down and out for much of Monday. Down Detector saw a spike in outage reports from users between around 5:30 AM and 6:30AM ET. There were two more prolonged spikes, denoting more significant outages, later in the morning. Team Engadget has not been able to view tweets on X for the most part, save for a few brief moments when the service showed signed of life. The platf
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X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has been suffering from outages all day Monday. And owner Elon Musk has finally said what’s behind it. Well, what he thinks is behind it. The billionaire oligarch says X is being hit with a “major cyberattack,” though he didn’t present any evidence to back up his claim. “There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X,” Musk tweeted Monday afternoon. “We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large
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If you're still using X on a regular basis, you might have noticed that access to the social media platform has been intermittent today. The service, formerly known as Twitter, appears to have suffered several outages throughout Monday. At the time of writing, they're still ongoing. The first outage seems to have occurred around 2.30 a.m. PT, according to DownDetector, with a further and more significant spike in reports occurring around 7 a.m. PT (Downdetector is owned by the same parent compa
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Elon Musk’s X was inaccessible on Monday morning for thousands of users, including many in the U.S. After about eight hours of outages, Musk posted that the platform is facing a “massive cyberattack.” “There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against 𝕏. 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 …” he wrote on X. Image Credits:Elon Musk on X Though there is no evidence of Musk’s claims beyond
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Elon Musk's social media platform X experienced several outages on Monday morning, leaving some users unable to load the site. Nearly 40,000 users reported problems with the platform around 10 a.m. ET, according to the analytics platform Downdetector, which gathers data from users who spot glitches and report them to the service. Around 28,000 people were experiencing issues as of 11:30 a.m. ET. A cause for the outages was not immediately clear. X did not immediately respond to CNBC's request
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Elon Musk’s X was inaccessible on Monday morning for thousands of users, including many in the U.S. According to Downdetector, a website that tracks users’ reports of online outages, X went down for some users around 5:30 AM ET, with over 20,000 users reporting outages. Though these outages seemed to have resolved after about an hour, the outages returned around 9:30 AM ET, with more than 40,000 users reporting issues. As of 10:30 AM ET, the outages are ongoing, though some users have reported
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is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Following some apparent outages on Thursday, Reddit dealt with more issues Friday evening that lasted for around two hours. Initially, when I logged in on my desktop browser during Friday’s outage, Reddit wouldn’t load at all — I would just run into error pages. In an incognito window, the site loaded, though it seemed to load slower than usual. I was also able to load the si
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is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Reddit experienced “international outages,” NetBlocks, a global internet monitor, said in a post Thursday evening, though it appears the outages have resolved. In that post, the organization said that the incident was “not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering.” There was also a big spike of outage reports on Downdetector, with a peak of around 56,000 rep
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