X sees major outages as Musk claims 'massive cyberattack' hit platform
- Social media platform X experienced intermittent outages on March 10, 2025, reportedly due to a massive cyberattack by Dark Storm Team, which specializes in DDoS attacks.
- The first outage began at 6 a.m. ET with over 20,000 reports, peaking around 10 a.m. ET with more than 40,000 reports of downtime.
- Elon Musk confirmed the attack, stating that there was a massive cyberattack against X.
- X has since implemented DDoS protections from Cloudflare in response to the ongoing attacks.
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