Elon Musk’s social media platform X, previously referred to as Twitter, skilled huge outages all through Monday morning that impacted 1000’s of customers within the US and UK.
The outage got here as platform monitor Downdetector mentioned it had seen tens of 1000’s of experiences from US customers of technical points affecting the platform.
There have been greater than 8,000 outage experiences from UK customers shortly earlier than 14:00 GMT, following a short however notable surge of experiences on Monday morning.
Connection points lasted for some customers into the afternoon.
Many customers making an attempt to entry the platform and refresh feeds on its app and desktop website throughout Monday’s outages had been met with a loading icon.
Musk claims the outages stemmed from a “huge cyber-attack” that originated “within the Ukraine space”.
However the know-how billionaire, who has been a frequent critic of Ukraine and its President Volodymyr Zelensky, provided no proof to help the declare and didn’t say whether or not or not he thought state actors had been concerned.
Earlier, he posted on X that “both a big, coordinated group and/or a rustic is concerned”.
The BBC has approached the Ukrainian embassy in Washington DC for remark.
“We’re unsure precisely what occurred however there was an enormous cyber-attack to attempt to deliver down the X system with [Internet Protocol] addresses originating within the Ukraine space,” Musk mentioned in an interview with the Fox Enterprise channel.
Alp Toker, director of Netblocks, which screens the connectivity of net companies, mentioned its personal metrics urged the outages may effectively be linked to a cyber-attack.
“What we have been seeing is according to what we have seen in previous denial of service assaults, somewhat than a configuration or coding error within the platform,” he advised the BBC.
He mentioned the organisation has seen a number of main outages spanning greater than six hours on Monday, “every having world affect”.
“That is amongst the longest X/Twitter outages we have tracked by way of period, and the sample is according to a denial of service assault focusing on X’s infrastructure at scale,” he added.
A distributed denial of service (DDoS) assault is an try to take an internet site offline by overwhelming it with web site visitors.
Musk has beforehand claimed that the platform has been focused by DDoS assaults, but these have not been confirmed.
Additionally on Monday, Musk known as US Senator Mark Kelly, a Democrat from Arizona, a “traitor” for going to Ukraine over the weekend. Kelly had mentioned the go to “proved to me we won’t hand over on the Ukrainian individuals”.
Kelly replied on X: “Elon, if you happen to do not perceive that defending freedom is a fundamental tenet of what makes America nice and retains us protected, possibly you must go away it to these of us who do.”
