Hackers Take Credit for X Cyberattack

[rbc]

More information is coming to light on the cyberattack that caused outages of the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) on Monday, but much of the information is difficult to verify.

There appear to have been several attack waves and tens of thousands of users have reported X outages, according to the DownDetector service. The disruptions were likely caused by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

As users reported being unable to access X, Elon Musk blamed the outages on a “massive cyberattack”.
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Hackers Take Credit for X Cyberattack