X has been hit by a “massive cyber attack”, according to Elon Musk.
The boss of the social media platform said the attack was carried out “with a lot of resources”.
Mr Musk claimed that either a large coordinated group or a country was involved, or both.
He wrote on the platform: “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…”
Around 40,000 users reported they couldn’t access the platform this afternoon, according to data from tracking website Downdetector.com.
Complaints about outages spiked at about 10am on Monday in the UK, and again at 2pm.
A source in the internet infrastructure industry told Reuters that the platform had been hit by several waves of denial of service (DoS) attacks at around 9.45am.
According to the National Cyber Security Centre, DoS attacks are attempts to overload a website or network – aiming to degrade its performance or make it completely inaccessible.
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