Elon Musk’s X has been hit by three waves of outages since this morning, which the billionaire claims was due to a cyberattack. According to outage tracking site DownDetector, the problems began around 6 am ET when up to 20,538 users reported problems.
The issues temporarily died down before nearly 40,000 users reported outages at 10 am. Since 12:30 pm ET, there have been about 26,000 reports at the time of writing. Many users on DownDetector complained the app wouldn’t load, and the outage appears to be global, according to DownDetector’s international sites.
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Source: CNN News
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