Elon Musk claims X being targeted in ‘massive cyber attack’ as service goes down

There were more than 28,000 users reporting outages at 11.28am Eastern Time, according to the tracking website Downdetector.com

Elon Musk said X had been hit by a cyber attack on Monday. Picture: Noah Berger/AP

Hours after a series of outages Monday that left X unavailable to thousands of users, Elon Musk claimed that the social media platform was being targeted in a “massive cyber attack.”

“We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources,” Mr Musk claimed in a post. “Either a large, co-ordinated group and/or a country is involved. Tracing …”