Technical difficulties delayed former President Donald Trump’s live conversation with Elon Musk on X by over 40 minutes.
Musk blamed the issues on a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyberattack, in which a bad actor seeks to overload a target server with traffic, rendering it unusable. His claims could not be verified. “We unfortunately had a massive distributed denial-of-service attack against our servers [that] saturated all of our data lines,” Musk said when he finally joined the call. “Hundreds of gigabits of data were saturated. We think we’ve overcome most of that, and so it’s now time to proceed.”
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Source: MSN News
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