X under ‘massive cyberattack’ – Musk

Downdetector has said it received outage reports from more than 60,000 users during the course of Monday.

Tech tycoon and billionaire Elon Musk has said that his X social media platform came under a “massive cyberattack” on Monday.

In a post on his personal account, he wrote that “we get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources,” surmising that “either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.”

Musk also replied in the affirmative to a suggestion by an X user that “they want to silence you and this platform.”

Downdetector, a website that monitors outages of online services, claimed that there were at least two waves of reports concerning X throughout Monday, with more than 60,000 users in total flagging issues.

Some X users reportedly saw error messages from Cloudflare, a content delivery network and cybersecurity services provider, that read, “Web server is returning an unknown error,” when they tried to access the site.

A previous massive outage affecting X happened last August.

In another post on X earlier in the day, Musk accused ActBlue, a major Democratic fundraising platform funded by such figures as billionaire George Soros, of staging a coordinated attack on his Tesla car company.

“An investigation has found 5 ActBlue-funded groups responsible for Tesla ‘protests’: Troublemakers, Disruption Project, Rise & Resist, Indivisible Project and Democratic Socialists of America,” the tech entrepreneur wrote.

His claim followed a slew of protests targeting electric car dealerships in over 50 locations across the US over the past few weeks. While most incidents were limited to demonstrators demanding that Musk “go,” several dealers suffered property damage.

The latest case occurred overnight in Seattle, where several Cybertrucks were torched. A similar attack took place on Saturday in Loveland, Colorado.

Last month, that same business was targeted by an arsonist who spray painted “Nazi cars” on the vehicles and hurled Molotov cocktails at them. Police later detained a transgender suspect, Lucy Grace Nelson, who was booked on a $100,000 cash bond and released the following day, much to the chagrin of local law enforcement.

Although critical of Democrats for several years now, Musk completed what some call a swing to the right when he endorsed Donald Trump for president after the failed assassination attempt on him last July. Musk has since become one of Trump’s closest confidants, leading a new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which aims to address waste and poor staffing in government agencies.

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