X sees major outages as Musk claims 'massive cyberattack' hit platform

Three separate outages appeared to hit Elon Musk's X social media site Monday as he claimed it was suffering a "massive cyberattack."
Three separate outages appeared to hit Elon Musk's X social media site Monday as he claimed it was suffering a "massive cyberattack."
Downdetector.com first registered thousands of reports of trouble accessing or using the site around 5:30 a.m. ET. It took about an hour before those issues subsided.
Then, around 9:30 a.m., the issues appeared to flare up again, with as many as 40,000 outage reports detected. It again took about an hour for that incident to dissipate.
Finally, around 11:10 a.m., the issues cropped up again, according to Downdetector.
A representative for X couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
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