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Elon Musk claims bad actors in Ukraine are behind “massive“ X cyberattack

Published on: 2025-10-22 23:50:04

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. After DownDetector reported that tens of thousands of users globally experienced repeated X (formerly Twitter) outages, Musk confirmed Monday that the issues are due to an ongoing cyberattack on the platform. "There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X," Musk wrote on 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." Musk has become a vocal critic of the Ukrainian government, but he has not allege ... Read full article.