A massive breakdown strikes the Musk X platform, thousands of people affected in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Elon Musksocial media XPreviously known as Twitter, faced major breakdowns on Monday morning, affecting many users in the United States and the United Kingdom.
According to Broken-downA platform monitoring service, there were tens of thousands of user reports in the United States concerning technical difficulties with the site.
In the United Kingdom, more than 8,000 landing reports were recorded shortly before 2 p.m. GMT, following a notable point in reports earlier in the morning.
Some users have continued to encounter connection problems in the afternoon.
During breakdowns, many people trying to access the platform and refresh their flows on the application and the office version encountered a loading icon.
Musk attributed the breakdowns to a “massive cyber attack” allegedly “in the region of Ukraine”.
However, the technological entrepreneur, who has often criticized Ukraine and his President Volodymyr Zelenskydid not provide any evidence to support this complaint and did not specify if he thought that the actors of the State were involved.
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Earlier, he posted on X that “be a large coordinated group and / or a country is involved”.
“We don’t know exactly what happened, but there was a massive cyber attack to try to drop the X system with [Internet Protocol] Addresses from the Ukraine region, “Musk said in an interview with Fox Business Channel.
Alp Toker, the director of NetblocksAn organization that supervises the connectivity of web services, said that their measures imply that breakdowns can be associated with a cyber attack.
“What we have seen is consistent with what we have seen in the attacks on past service denial, rather than a configuration or coding error in the platform,” he said to Bbc.
The organization experienced several important breakdowns on Monday, each lasts more than six hours and affecting operations worldwide, according to its declaration.
“It is among the longest X / Twitter breakdowns that we have followed in terms of duration, and the model is consistent with a denial of service attack targeting the large-scale X infrastructure,” he added.
A distributed service denial attack (DDOS) refers to an effort to allow a website by flooding it with excessive internet traffic.
Musk said in the past that the platform has been subject to DDOS attacks; However, these claims remain unaccussion.
In addition, Musk on Monday, Musk referred to the American senator Mark Kelly, an Arizona democrat, as a “traitor” for his recent trip to Ukraine. Kelly pointed out that the visit “proved to me that we cannot abandon the Ukrainian people”.
Replied Kelly, external on X: “Elon, if you do not understand that the defense of freedom is a basic principle of what makes America great and keep us safe, you may leave to those of us who do it.”
The property of Elon Musk of X was prey to controversy, instability and technical failures. The last breakdown, coupled with allegations of unconceived cyber attacks, highlights the current difficulties of the platform under its direction. Since the change of Twitter brand, X has been a decrease in user confidence, advertiser’s losses and erratic policy changes.
Musk’s impulsive management style and political tangles more users and investors. His accusations against Ukraine, without evidence, only food for disinformation and division. Instead of promoting innovation, X Under Musk has become a chaotic and unreliable platform. If these problems persist, the X risks decrease, non-very well or even possible collapse.