Social network X reports outages. Musk speaks of cyber attack Iz Ukraine

Around eleven o'clock in the morning the site was loaded, but instead of posts, users showed an error message. On duty Dowdetctor The outage of about an hour earlier about 40,000 users reported. Around 11:15 pm some users began to appear content. Others, however, have problems with loading content AS by login even in the evening.

“There has been (still occurs) a massive cyber attack on X. He attacks us every day, but this has been made using large resources. Either a large coordinated group, and/or country, ”Musk wrote.

Later, Musk said in an interview at Fox Business, that IP addresses from the Ukraine region were involved in an attack that was aimed at excluding the social network X out of operation, Reuters said. Musk has recently drawn up a number of anti -Ukrainian statements and even threatened to turn Kiev off the Starlink Internet system.

According to the contribution on the social network, the hacker group Dark Storm Team applied for the attack on the social network, reported the news website Newsweek. This Propalestinian cyber attack group focuses on Western entities, including those in the United States, entities in Ukraine, in the United Arab Emirates and Israel, the website says. Last month, according to Newsweek, a successful attack, for example, on Los Angeles airport or the port in Haifa.

Downdetctor said most of the reported problems have appeared in the X application. A smaller proportion of outages was recorded by the social network website.

In March 2023, the service, then known as Twitter, experienced more than an hour's outage. Links stopped working, some users could not log in and others did not read pictures.

Billionaire Musk Twitter bought in 2022 For $ 44 billion (roughly trillion CZK). Since then, the company has undergone extensive changes, which, in addition to renaming, also included the release of most employees and the release of the rules for content regulation.

According to the February report of Bloomberg, the company negotiates with investors to provide finance. At the same time, he appreciates himself for the amount of $ 44 billion, which Musk paid for it.

This year in February network they started to investigate In France because of alleged bias of algorithms. The French authorities of the investigation started at the initiative of the central legislator érica Bothorela. According to France, the Deputy Info contacted the Department of Cyber ​​Crime J3 of the Paris Prosecutor's Office for concerns that the X network uses biased algorithms.