Elon Musk’s X faces international outage third time in a day, purpose unknown – Firstpost

US billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X on Monday (March 10) confronted an enormous outage for the third time in a day, with hundreds of customers reporting points globally.

Downdetector web site confirmed that the
first disruption occurred at round 3:30 pm IST (10:00 am GMT). The second spike was noticed at round 7:00 pm IST (1:30 pm GMT). The newest outage was reported at 8:44 pm IST (3:14 pm GMT), with greater than 34,500 customers reporting points in accessing the app within the US alone on Downdetector.

The outage was recorded within the US, India, Australia and the UK amongst different nations.

Downdetector confirmed that whereas 56 per cent of the reporters confronted issues logging into the app, 33 per cent encountered points on the web site.

Darkish Storm claims responsbility

In the meantime, in accordance with media studies, Hacking group Darkish Storm Staff has claimed duty for a Distributed Denial-of-service (DDoS) assault on the platform.

Darkish Storm Staff, a hacking collective recognized for its refined cyber warfare techniques, has gained consideration for breaching extremely safe programs.

Based in 2023, the group reportedly follows a pro-Palestinian agenda, in accordance with Orange Cyberdefense.

Final month, Darkish Storm Staff introduced plans to hold out cyberattacks in opposition to authorities web sites of NATO nations, Israel, and different nations backing Israel.

Musk blames huge cyberattack

In a publish on X, Musk blamed a ‘huge cyberattack’ by a ‘very giant group’ or nation for the outages.

“There was (nonetheless is) an enormous cyberattack in opposition to X. We get attacked every single day, however this was accomplished with a variety of sources. Both a big, coordinated group and/or a rustic is concerned,” Musk wrote.

Musk was responding to a different person’s publish hinting on the potential assault on X, who tried to attach the dots between criticism mounted in opposition to the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) and
latest assaults focusing on Tesla shops within the US.

“First, protests in opposition to DOGE. Then, Tesla shops had been attacked. Now, X is down. I wouldn’t rule out the likelihood that this downtime is the results of an assault on X,” the person steered.

Customers left annoyed

Frequent outages precipitated frustration amongst customers.

Whereas some areas are experiencing partial restoration, many customers nonetheless can not entry the platform.

X beforehand suffered main outages in 2023 when the app skilled a slew of glitches for over an hour as hyperlinks stopped working.

Elon Musk took over previously Twitter in 2022 and renamed it to X, modified ‘tweets’ to ‘posts’ and removed the hen brand.

The US billionaire additionally carried out mass firings on the firm, relieving practically 80 per cent of the workers.