Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Tuesday proposed a possible link between Ukraine and the X cyberattack that led to the widespread global blackout of his micro-blogging website.
On Monday, users from millions in North America, Europe, and Asia, including India, were confronted with long stretches of interruptions as they attempted to access the micro-blogging platform. DownDetector, which is an outage tracker, said that the disruption's peak happened approximately at 3:00 PM.
Talking to the media, Musk asserted that cyber evidence hinted at Ukraine as a likely source of the huge attack.
"We don't know exactly what transpired, but there was this huge cyberattack to attempt to take down the X system from IP addresses within the Ukraine region," Musk said in an interview with Fox News.
Throughout the outage, X went totally dark, impacting more than 40,000 users who were having trouble accessing the site, publishing content, or even loading pages.
Verifying the type of attack, Musk promised on Monday to find those behind it.
"We get attacked daily, but this was executed with a great deal of resources. Either a big, coordinated group and/or a nation is behind it. Tracing…," the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX tweeted.
"There was (still is) a huge cyberattack on X," he continued, stating that the effort was intended to silence him and his platform, especially since he remained vocal about criticizing Ukraine while working as an adviser to former U.S. President Donald Trump.
Musk recently stated that Ukraine's frontline operations would be in jeopardy without his Starlink satellite service but assured that access would not be cut off.
He additionally supported his claim by quoting a post which established the connection between the cyberattack and attempts made against him more broadly, highlighting recent protests in opposition to his leadership of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as well as vandalism directed towards Tesla properties.
Musk assumed ownership of X in October 2022, having acquired the company for $44 billion.
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