White House senior advisor Elon Musk said Monday that X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, is the target of a “massive cyberattack.”
Users reported intermittent outages of the social network Monday, according to a post on X by Musk. A hacker group known as the Dark Storm Team claimed responsibility for the attack, Newsweek reported.
“There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X,” Musk posted. “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. Tracing …”
Musk closed the deal to purchase Twitter for $44 billion in October 2022, seeking to create a “common digital town square” on the site, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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