Elon Musk claims bad actors in Ukraine are behind “massive“ X cyberattack
Elon Musk is now claiming that bad actors in Ukraine are behind an alleged cyberattack that caused outages on his social media platform X on Monday.
In an interview, Musk told Fox Business that he believes the attack came from “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area.”
Musk admitted that “we don’t know exactly what happened”—nodding as his comments were characterized as a suspicion and discussing no evidence—but alleged that the attackers were trying to take down the entire X platform.
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