Elon Musk revealed that the cyber attack that brought down his social media app X on Monday was apparently created in Ukraine.
During an interview with FOX Business Network, his Bombshell revelation came on Monday afternoon after repeated glitches with his site, which no longer thanks for most of the day.
“Well, we are not sure what exactly happened,” Musk started in the interview.
“But there was a huge cyber attack to try to bring down the X system with IP addresses from Ukraine,” he revealed shocking.
Earlier on the day X, Musk confirmed the target of a 'massive cyber attack'.
The richest man in the world, however, noted during the interview that the view of social media is now active again.
The explanation came after the platform has fallen for users worldwide. Users have cited problems with the app and the website since 5:30.
Musk shared on x That the hack includes so many resources that he believes that it could only be the work of a 'coordinated group' or a foreign country.
X Owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed on Monday afternoon in an interview that he still is still not sure why his social media platform fell on Monday, although he shared that IP addresses from Ukraine were involved in the apparent sabotage
Elon Musk confirmed that his X platform was the victim of a 'huge cyber attack'
His comments during his TV interview on Monday afternoon seem to confirm that concern.
Musk did not offer any other details about the attack that has influenced the 600 million active monthly users of the app.
Dark Storm Team, a hacking group, took the honor for the attack, according to Post on X Monday afternoon.
CyberSecurity Group Spyosecure claimed that they spoke with the leader of the Dark Storm team, who revealed that she was a DDOS attack on X.
A DDOS attack is essentially a traffic jam on the internet, intentionally caused to close websites.
With these attacks, the hacker sends thousands or even millions of fake visitors (bots) to flood the site.
As a result, the site is so overwhelmed that it slows down or fully crashes, making it impossible for real users to get to X.
Many users have not been able to log in to their accounts, while others reported that the site will not load for shows.
Elon Musk (L) is for an interview with Larry Kudlow from Fox Business Network
Those who have already been registered on the app and the website presented the message: “Something went wrong, try to load again.”
Down detector, a site that follows websites that go down, shows that tens of thousands of users have reported problems with X.
At 10.00 am on Monday, more than 40,000 users reported problems with the social media site.
From 5 p.m., however, only about 1,000 users reported problems, which means that engineers could have been able to control the attack at X.
