Tech billionaire Elon Musk said that the social media platform he owns is facing a “massive cyberattack,” adding that the attack appears to be coming from the Ukraine area.
“Well… we’re not sure exactly what happened, but there was a massive cyberattack to try to bring down the ecosystem with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area,” he said while speaking to Fox Business’ Larry Kudlow on Monday.
Earlier in the day, Musk posted about the attack on X.
“There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X,” Musk, who is heading the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), wrote on X.
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk said that the social media platform he owns is facing a “massive cyberattack.” (Getty Images / Getty Images)
“We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources,” Musk said. “Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved. Tracing …”
X suffered periodic outages on Monday morning. Few additional details were immediately available.
The outages come as another Musk company, Tesla, is facing “takedown” protests at facilities across the country. (LEONARDO MUNOZ/AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)
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Musk purchased the social media platform then known as Twitter for $44 billion in October 2022. He re-branded the platform to X in July 2023.
The outages come as another Musk company, Tesla, is facing “takedown” protests at facilities across the country. Musk has alleged that left-wing billionaire George Soros, LinkedIn co-founder and billionaire Democratic mega-donor Reid Hoffman and others are bankrolling the demonstrations.
Musk’s companies, which also include SpaceX, hold billions of dollars worth of contracts with the Department of Defense. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images / Getty Images)
Musk’s companies, which also include SpaceX, hold billions of dollars worth of contracts with the Department of Defense.
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Trump has praised Musk’s work through the Department of Government Efficiency as the administration aims to save taxpayers billions of dollars in government spending it considers wasteful.
