Elon Musk revealed that the cyberattack which took down his social media app X on Monday seemingly originated in Ukraine.
His bombshell revelation came during an interview with Fox Business Network on Monday afternoon following repeated glitches with his site, which has been down for much of the day.
‘Well, we don’t we’re not sure exactly what happened,’ Musk began in the interview.
‘But there was a massive cyber attack to try to bring down the X system with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area,’ he shockingly revealed.
Musk confirmed earlier in the day that X has been targeted by a ‘massive cyberattack.’
However, the world’s richest man noted during the interview that the social media sight is now back up and running now.
The statement came after the platform has been down for users worldwide. Users have cited issues with the app and website since as early as 5:30am ET.
Musk shared on X that the hack involves so many resources that he believes it could only be the work of a ‘coordinated group’ or a foreign country.
X owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed in an interview Monday afternoon that he is still not sure exactly why his social media platform went down on Monday, though he shared that IP addresses based out of Ukraine were involved in the apparent sabotage
Elon Musk confirmed that his X platform was a victim of a ‘massive cyberattack’
His comments during his TV interview Monday afternoon appear to confirm that claim.
Musk did not offer any other details on the attack which has impacted the app’s 600 million active monthly users.
Dark Storm Team, a hacking group, took credit for the attack, according to post on X Monday afternoon.
Cybersecurity group SpyoSecure claimed that they spoke to the leader of Dark Storm Team, who revealed that they initiated a DDOS attack on X.
A DDOS attack is essentially a traffic jam on the internet, caused on purpose to shut websites down.
In these attacks the hacker sends thousands or even millions of fake visitors (bots) to flood the site.
This causes the site gets so overwhelmed that it slows down or completely crashes, making it impossible for real users to get onto X.
Many users have been left unable to log in to their accounts, while others reported the site will not load to shows posts.
Those already logged in on the app and website have been presented with the message: ‘Something went wrong, try reloading.’
This is a breaking news story and will continue to be updated.
