Elon Musk, owner of the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), reported that the platform experienced significant outages on March 10, 2025, due to a “massive cyberattack.” Musk suggested that the attack was highly coordinated, possibly involving a large group or even a nation-state.
Initially, a pro-Palestinian group named “Dark Storm Team” claimed responsibility for the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. However, Musk later indicated that the attack might have originated from Ukrainian IP addresses. Experts caution that pinpointing the exact origin of such attacks is challenging, as attackers often use compromised devices and proxy networks to conceal their identities.
DDoS attacks overwhelm a target’s servers with excessive traffic, rendering the service inaccessible to legitimate users. The recent incident on X led to intermittent outages, affecting users’ ability to access the platform.
This cyberattack highlights the vulnerabilities even major platforms face against sophisticated and coordinated cyber threats. X has since taken measures to secure its servers and mitigate future attacks.
Elon Musk has claimed that his social media platform X – formerly known as Twitter – is currently the target of a “massive cyberattack”
Users have struggled to log into the social media platform following multiple outages on Monday (March 10).
In response, Musk has shared a tweet explaining that X was – and “still is” – the victim of a “massive cyberattack”.
“There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X,” Musk posted on the platform. “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.”
The platform suffered at least three major disruptions throughout the day, with the first occurring in the early hours of Monday morning.
X users reported being unable to load the site, receiving error messages instead. According to social media outage tracker DownDetector, the first outage peaked with around 17,000 reports of X being down in the U.S., followed by 40,000 during the second outage and 35,000 in the latest wave of disruptions, per Sky News.
Musk later shared a tweet agreeing with a user who claimed that somebody is attempting to “silence” him and the platform.
Musk, who purchased Twitter for $44 billion in 2022, did not specify the exact nature of the attack but suggested it may have involved significant resources, potentially hinting at a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
This type of cyberattack overwhelms a site’s servers with massive amounts of traffic, causing it to crash.
While X has experienced outages before, many were linked to the sweeping changes and layoffs that followed Musk’s takeover of the company. However, this incident coincided with a broader market downturn that saw Tesla, Musk’s electric vehicle company, take a major hit in stock value.
Adding to the turbulence, the cyberattack followed a series of physical attacks on Tesla showrooms across Europe and the U.S. over the weekend.
Musk, a divisive figure in global politics, has faced mounting criticism, particularly after his appointment as head of the controversial “department of government efficiency” (Doge), a role focused on cutting U.S. government jobs and spending.
As of now, X has not released an official statement explaining the outages, leaving users and cybersecurity experts speculating about the full extent and nature of the attack.
