“Elon Musk Reveals Shocking Details of X’s ‘Massive Cyber Attack’—Is User Data at Risk?”

In a twist that seems almost tailor-made for a sci-fi movie script, Elon Musk has declared that his social media platform X is facing significant turbulence, courtesy of a “massive cyber attack.” Can you believe it? Just when we thought social media couldn’t get any more chaotic! Today, users are grappling with login dilemmas as Musk speculates that this blitz might be the handiwork of a well-organized team—or, brace yourself, even a foreign entity! With over 40,000 reports of issues swirling on Downdetector, the platform’s troubles could spark rumors about conspiracy theories you’d expect from a blockbuster film—after all, who needs enemies when you have cybersecurity drama unfolding at home? If you’re curious to know how Musk is handling this latest crisis—especially after recent setbacks with his SpaceX endeavors—stick around. This saga is just getting started! LEARN MORE.

Elon Musk has claimed that his social media site X has been hit by a ‘massive cyber attack’ as a number of users have struggled to log into the platform.

The platform has been suffering from outages today (10 March) and Musk posted online about why he thinks this is.

He wrote: “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 …”

Thousands of users were reporting problems with the platform on the website Downdetector.com, with as many as 40,000 people reporting issues with X, formerly Twitter, by around 10am Eastern time.

When he claimed that X had been hit with a ‘cyber attack’, Musk was responding to a post which was complaining about ‘protests against DOGE’ (Musk’s controversial new role in the US government) and that ‘Tesla stores were attacked’.

This account was then theorising that Twitter being down for people was ‘the result of an attack’ from without rather than technical issues from within the site, leading Musk to quote their message and claim a ‘massive cyber attack’ had been launched and that it must be a large group or even a country.

Someone else replied to Musk saying ‘they want to silence you and this platform’, to which the billionaire replied ‘yes’.

Outages of this kind have happened before, in March 2023 the social media site suffered from a series of glitches which meant that links stopped working and some people couldn’t log into their accounts.

According to Downdetector.com, 63 percent of problems this time around were reported for the X app, while 33 percent were from people trying to access it through a web browser.

Musk claimed it must be the work of ‘either a large, coordinated group and/or a country’ (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

The issue seems to have been a global one as users from various countries were reporting problems with accessing the social media platform.

SpyoSecure, a cybersecurity team that ‘tracks, exposes, and reports’ scammers, previously said X was the victim of a cyber attack.

It’s a dollop of technological trouble that Musk does not need, hot on the heels of the recent disaster of his failed SpaceX rocket launch.

The rocket blasted off from Texas but very visibly broke up over Florida during a test flight, disrupting over 240 flights as it ended up suffering a ‘rapid unscheduled disassembly’.

It was meant to land in the Indian Ocean, but with the failed test flight it’s a case of waiting for the next test to see if things get better.