(NEXSTAR) — Amid intermittent outages to X on Monday, owner Elon Musk says the social media platform was hit by “a massive cyberattack” that “still is” occurring.
“We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources,” Musk wrote on X shortly before 1:30 p.m. ET. “Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.”
The issues appeared to start early Monday morning, with two subsequent outages reported by users.
Downdetector data shows roughly 22,000 user-reported issues with X around 6 a.m. ET. Outage reports quickly dropped off, before spiking again at around 10 a.m. ET.
During that service interruption, X web users encountered a message reading, “Something went wrong. Try reloading.” A button to retry also appeared, prompting a spinning blue circle that reverted to the same message after a few seconds. Users reported similar problems with the app version of X.
Issue reports on Downdetector spiked to more than 40,000 during that interruption. Shortly before 10:30 a.m. ET, however, X appeared to be back to normal with user issue reports on Downdetector starting to decline.
The web version of X was accessible again by around 1:30 p.m. ET, while user-reported issues on Downdetector have been declining since around 12:45 p.m.
