'Massive cyberattack': Elon Musk blames 'coordinated group or country' for global X outage

According to Downdetector, Musk-owned X was facing intermittent outages on Monday, restricting thousands of US and global users from accessing the social media platform.

Elon Musk, owner of X, on March 10 alleged that the social media platform was facing outages because of a "massive cyberattack". The billionaire owner and ally of US President Donald Trump also claimed that a large, coordinated group or a country was involved in the cyberattack against X.

"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. Tracing …," Musk said in response to a post on the social media platform.

There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against .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.Tracing https://t.co/aZSO1a92no
Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 10, 2025

According to Downdetector, Musk-owned X was facing intermittent outages on Monday, restricting thousands of US and global users from accessing the social media platform.

The number of outage reports rose to around 26,579 after falling briefly, user-submitted data on the outage-tracking website showed. The number was as high as 40,000 earlier in the day.

More than 10,800 X users in the UK also reported the outage earlier in the day, according to the website.

The cause of the outage was not immediately clear, and X did not respond to a Reuters request for comment.

With Reuters inputs