Musk confirms X outage due to 'massive cyberattack'

X platform owner Elon Musk confirmed on Monday that the widespread outages of the social media app were due to an ongoing cyberattack.

"There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against 𝕏," he said. "

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.

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The social media platform has faced considerable scrutiny from European leaders over its permissive speech policies and from hacktivist groups such as Anonymous.

The platform experienced considerable outages or slowed function in the middle of Monday.