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 X: “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…”
There have been outages across the platform this afternoon, with users unable to log in. More than 40,000 reported no access to the platform, according to data from tracking website Downdetector.com
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