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Is X down? Elon Musk claims ‘massive cyberattack’

Published March 10, 2025 10:48 AM MST

FILE - In this photo illustration, a X (Twitter) logo is seen displayed on a smartphone. (Photo Illustration by Mateusz Slodkowski/ SOPA Images/ LightRocket via Getty Images)

Elon Musk said Monday that his social media platform X was hit with a cyberattack. 

Tens of thousands of outage reports were spiking for the site earlier in the day. 

Is X down? 

The backstory:

According to downdetector.com, more than 40,000 instances of X being down were reported as of 9:42 a.m. ET Monday. 

By 10:30 a.m. ET, that number had dropped to just over 1,000 reports but spiked up again around 11:45 a.m. ET and 1 p.m. ET. 

X ‘cyberattack’

What they're saying:

Musk replied to a tweet saying X was down that officials with the team were tracing a cyberattack.

"There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X. 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," he said, adding, "Tracing…" 

The Source: This report includes information from downdetector.com.

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