{"id":256029,"date":"2025-03-10T18:17:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T18:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/elon-musk-says-x-hit-by-massive-cyber-attack-as-users-unable-to-log-in\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T18:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T18:17:03","slug":"elon-musk-says-x-hit-by-massive-cyber-attack-as-users-unable-to-log-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/elon-musk-says-x-hit-by-massive-cyber-attack-as-users-unable-to-log-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says X hit by &#8216;massive cyber attack&#8217; as users unable to log in"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/e3.365dm.com\/24\/08\/1920x1080\/skynews-x-twiter-social-media_6659747.jpg?20240818040415&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Elon Musk says X hit by &#8216;massive cyber attack&#8217; as users unable to log in\" title=\"Elon Musk says X hit by &#8216;massive cyber attack&#8217; as users unable to log in\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>X has been hit by a &#8220;massive cyber attack&#8221;, according to Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>The boss of the social media platform said the attack was carried out &#8220;with a lot of resources&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/elon-musk-6730\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Mr Musk<\/strong><\/a> claimed that either a large coordinated group or a country was involved, or both.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote on the platform: &#8220;There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/twitter-6057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>X<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More than 40,000 users reported they couldn&#8217;t access the platform this afternoon, according to data from tracking website Downdetector.com.<\/p>\n<p>Complaints about outages spiked at about 10am on Monday in the UK, and again at 2pm.<\/p>\n<p><em>This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please refresh the page for the fullest version.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You can receive breaking news alerts on a smartphone or tablet via the <a href=\"https:\/\/qrcode.skynews.com\/skynews\/appdownload\"><strong>Sky News app<\/strong><\/a>. <\/em><em><em>You can also <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029Va868Fv8vd1UsF99tP1u\"><em><strong>follow us on WhatsApp<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em> and subscribe to our <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews\"><em><strong>YouTube channel<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em> to keep up with the latest news.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/elon-musk-says-x-hit-by-massive-cyber-attack-as-users-unable-to-log-in-13325939\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X has been hit by a &#8220;massive cyber attack&#8221;, according to Elon Musk. The boss of the social media platform said the attack was carried out &#8220;with a lot of resources&#8221;. Mr Musk claimed that either a large coordinated group or a country was involved, or both. He wrote on the platform: &#8220;There was (still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/24\/08\/1920x1080\/skynews-x-twiter-social-media_6659747.jpg?20240818040415","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[607],"tags":[2601,13320,2534,1028,42004,5007,6039,1729,712],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256031,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256029\/revisions\/256031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}