Elon Musk Announces ‘Massive Cyberattack’ Causing X Outage

Thousands of people reported on March 10 that the social media platform was down for them.

Epoch Times, 3/10/2025By Jack Phillips

Tech billionaire Elon Musk on March 10 said that an outage affecting his social media platform, X, is being caused by a “massive cyberattack” that is ongoing.

On March 10, tens of thousands of reports were submitted to DownDetector saying users could not access the X app or website or they could not access posts.

In response, Musk wrote at midday: “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,” the Tesla and SpaceX CEO wrote, adding that his company is “tracing” the attacks.

In a later interview with Fox News on the same day, Musk said that the attacks’ IP addresses in the X cyberattack were “linked to IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area.” The Epoch Times could not immediately authenticate Musk’s comment.

People on the platform first started reporting issues after 5 a.m. ET on March 10, according to DownDetector. After a brief period of time, the number of reports appeared to drop before picking back up again at about 11 a.m. ET……………………………………

More than 10,000 people in the United Kingdom also reported an X outage earlier on March 10, according to DownDetector’s website…………………..

The outage comes amid Musk and Secretary of State Marco Rubio having publicly sparred with Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski on March 9 after Musk said on X that the Ukraine war with Russia would be severely hampered if he were to turn off Starlink internet access in the Eastern European country.

On March 9, Musk, who is currently a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, wrote that Starlink has served as the “backbone of the Ukrainian army” and asserted that “their entire front line would collapse if I turned it off.” He also said he wants peace for Ukraine and that he’s backed the country in its war effort by providing the internet service.

Sikorski responded to Musk by saying that Poland was paying for the internet service and claimed Musk was threatening Kyiv. The Trump administration and Ukraine’s leadership have been engaged in high-stakes talks about ending the conflict and a deal for continued support of Ukraine that also benefits the United States………. https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/elon-musk-announces-massive-cyberattack-causing-x-outage-5823029?utm_source=Aobreakingnoe&utm_medium=Aoemail&utm_campaign=Aobreaking-2025-03-11&utm_content=NL_Ao&src_src=Aobreakingnoe&src_cmp=Aobreaking-2025-03-11&cta_utm_source=Aobreakingnoecta&est=iIzbjUv5GHdVOivdisxCzrbEBMMMNm2pOhOa%2F2%2Bo%2B8Uc84LMJe%2BVuIounSiENahxKSKfQOBK8pkU