Musk Explains why X suffered outage on Monday

If you noticed a bit of outage or sluggishness on X on Monday, it is because the company had suffered a “massive cyberattack according to its billionaire owner Elon Musk.

X experienced several outages on Monday, March 10, leaving some users unable to load the site.

The outage was recorded in the US, India, Australia, and the UK among other nations.

Nearly 40,000 users reported problems with the platform around 10 a.m. ET, (5:00 p.m EAT) according to the analytics platform Downdetector, which gathers data from users who spot glitches and report them to the service.

Around 28,000 people were experiencing issues as of 11:30 a.m. ET, (6:30 p.m. EAT), and about 22,000 people were having trouble with the site as of 2:00 p.m. ET., (9:00 p.m. EAT)

When X resumed loading for some users Monday afternoon, Musk said the company had suffered a massive cyberattack.

“We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources,” Musk wrote in a post. “Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.”

Musk who acquired X for $44 billion in 2022, also replied “Yes” to a post on X suggesting people are trying to silence the billionaire and his platform, although no further details about the service disruption have been revealed.