Elon Musk accuses Ukraine: Massive cyber attack on platform X!

Elon Musk accuses Ukraine: Massive cyber attack on platform X!

The short messages of the short messages X, owned by Elon Musk, was hit by massive technical disorders on Monday, which Musk attributed to a "massive cyber attack". In an interview with Fox Business, the Tech billionaire suspected that this attack was assumed by hackers from Ukraine. Thousands of users worldwide had problems with access to X, which led to an international failure of the platform, krone.at .

IP addresses were identified for the attack, according to Musk, from Ukraine. However, he did not blame any specific evidence of these claims and expressed skepticism experts. These types of attacks, known as the Denial of Service attacks, mean that websites are flooded with an abundance of data traffic and thereby fail. The actual origin of these attacks could be difficult to determine, since IP addresses can be easily fake, such as watson.ch explained.

global disorders and reactions

The platform only recorded over 900 fault reports on Monday in Switzerland, especially from the cities of Zurich, Basel and Bern. Over 21,000 disorders were reported for the United States, and users from countries such as Romania, Thailand and New Zealand also reported similar problems. Two significant failures kept X paralyzed for around 30 minutes, which makes the range and the extent of the attack clear.