{"id":2412146,"date":"2025-03-10T17:01:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T21:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-says-x-is-experiencing-massive-cyberattack-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T17:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T21:04:05","slug":"elon-musk-says-x-is-experiencing-massive-cyberattack-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-says-x-is-experiencing-massive-cyberattack-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says X is experiencing \u2018massive cyberattack\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-says-x-is-experiencing-massive-cyberattack-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2412146&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Elon Musk, the owner of X (formerly Twitter), announced that his platform \u2062is\u2064 currently facing a\u200c &#8220;massive cyberattack,&#8221; which has resulted\u2064 in several outages. Musk stated that while the platform is \u200cregularly attacked, this incident is notable due to the extensive resources used, suggesting\u200c involvement from a well-organized group or even a nation-state. \u2063The advanced hacking group Dark Storm Team has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/isis-k-claims-responsibility-for-kabul-terror-attacks\/\" title=\"ISIS-K Claims Responsibility For Kabul Terror Attacks\">reportedly claimed responsibility<\/a> for a sophisticated distributed denial-of-service attack on\u2064 X. <\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 cyberattack followed a weekend of protests targeting\u200d Musk&#8217;s \u2062Tesla facilities, allegedly organized by \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-to-expand-access-to-refugee-program-for-afghan-allies\/\" title=\"Biden admin. to expand access to refugee program for Afghan allies\">groups funded<\/a> by ActBlue, \u200cwhich Musk accused of being behind the\u2062 demonstrations. His remarks have sparked a mix\u200d of support and concern among users on X, with some emphasizing the need to protect Musk.\u200c Additionally, musk indicated that investigations into the source of these attacks are ongoing, as he \u2063continues \u2064to \u2062face organized opposition linked to his political \u200caffiliations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Elon Musk says X is experiencing &lsquo;massive cyberattack&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2031202\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/x-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"X\">X<\/a> owner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Elon Musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> shared on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> that his website is undergoing a &ldquo;massive cyberattack,&rdquo; which resulted in multiple outages early Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X,&rdquo; Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1899149509407473825\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"stated\">said <\/a>on X.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/premium\/3338078\/trump-gold-cards-balanced-budget-united-states\/\">New Gilded Age, via plastic? Trump sees gold cards as the ticket to a balanced budget<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/magazine-business\/3337072\/trump-gamble-tariff-threats-canada-mexico-china\/\">Trump takes a consequential gamble pulling the trigger on tariff threats<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/business\/3338278\/abc-news-disney-entertainment-lay-off-hundreds-merge-shows\/\">ABC News and Disney Entertainment to lay off hundreds, merge shows<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;We get attacked every day,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;But this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and\/or a country is involved.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against &#120143;. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>Tracing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aZSO1a92no\">https:\/\/t.co\/aZSO1a92no<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1899149509407473825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Tracing &hellip;&rdquo; he added about his company looking into the source.<\/p>\n<p>Dark Storm Team, an <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">advanced cyber warfare hacking collective<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Newsweek\/status\/1899152892772094364\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"reportedly\">reportedly<\/a> claimed responsibility for a sophisticated distributed denial-of-service attack on the social media platform.<\/p>\n<p>While the first outage was detected and resolved quickly, according to Downdetector, the website was repeatedly hit with cyberattacks following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Some people attempted to ask X&rsquo;s artificial intelligence assistant, Grok, what was happening, but the phrase, &ldquo;Something went wrong. Please try again,&rdquo; continued to pop up on the site.<\/p>\n<p>Musk&rsquo;s businesses were <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">attacked over the weekend after nationwide protests targeted and vandalized his&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tesla\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tesla<\/a>&nbsp;facilities, cars, dealerships, and charging stations. The protests were organized<\/span> because of his involvement with President Donald Trump&rsquo;s efforts to cut wasteful spending and fraud in the federal government through the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Elon Musk flashes his T-shirt that says &ldquo;DOGE&rdquo; to the media as he walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Sunday, March 9, 2025. (AP Photo\/Jose Luis Magana)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The billionaire blamed five ActBlue funders, including the left-wing megadonors George Soros and Reid Hoffman, for being behind the progressive activist groups organizing to target him and his businesses.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;An investigation has found 5 ActBlue-funded groups responsible for Tesla &lsquo;protests&rsquo;: Troublemakers, Disruption Project, Rise &amp; Resist, Indivisible Project and Democratic Socialists of America,&rdquo; Musk said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;ActBlue is currently under investigation for allowing foreign and illegal donations in criminal violation of campaign finance regulations,&rdquo; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>X users responded to Musk&rsquo;s message that his platform was under a cyberattack. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not an attack on X. It&rsquo;s an attack on Elon Musk. We need to Protect this man,&rdquo; one X user <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GrowwithGrok\/status\/1899142081240588524\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"said\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It means &#120143; is over the target,&rdquo; another person <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/stillgray\/status\/1899150215757639694\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"reacted\">reacted<\/a> on X. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Left is deranged!&rdquo; another X user <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GuntherEagleman\/status\/1899149941479530583\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"responded\">responded<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3342029\/no-rift-musk-rubio-trump-cabinet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"KAROLINE LEAVITT SAYS NO RIFT BETWEEN MUSK AND RUBIO\"><strong>KAROLINE LEAVITT SAYS NO RIFT BETWEEN MUSK AND RUBIO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former Twitter Files reporter Matt Taibbi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racket.news\/p\/re-twitter-lol?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=1042&amp;post_id=158781007&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=738hu&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">quipped<\/a> on his Substack on Monday that Musk &ldquo;might want to spend less time arguing with Anne Applebaum&rsquo;s husband and more time making sure X is on during NFL free agency.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Hosni Mubarak might still be ruling Egypt if this had happened in 2011. Yes, I say this selfishly,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2031202\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2031202\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk reports X is facing a &#8216;massive cyberattack&#8217; causing outages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2678,"featured_media":2412147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Elon-Musk-4.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[51896,32192,44415,32076,37908],"class_list":["post-2412146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cyberattack-2","tag-elon-musk","tag-technology-news","tag-washington-examiner","tag-x-platform"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Elon-Musk-4.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2412146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2412150,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412146\/revisions\/2412150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2412147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2412146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2412146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}