X Under Cyberattack

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18 points·sillypuddy··10 comments

Interesting hypothesis, any corroboration from a reputable source?

Edit Hey! Look at that: https://www.syracuse.com/us-news/2025/03/x-outage-hacker-gro...

Who would corroborate a cyber attack like that?

Via @elonmusk on X

> There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X.

> 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.

Repeating the original thread source is not corroboration from another source, reputable or otherwise.

Interesting theory. Why would Elon lie about a cyberattack?

to cover up how incompetent his company is after he fired all the A-list engineers

Why would a prominent member of a government administration with a central narrative of being besieged by (particularly internal) enemies which necessitates taking extreme action to liberare the country lie about a large scale attack directed at one of the things most publicly associated with them?

The reasons are quite obvious.

Nice joke, but on a serious note I can totally see Elon being told this, or hallucinating this, but I'm not particularly convinced that this actually happened. Waiting for third party cybersec firms.

Also I just saw a screenshot that indicated Twitter is still fronted by Cloudflare (I honestly thought that was a temporary measure to bypass the Brazil ban [1]), and now I believe this even less [0].

[0]: https://bsky.app/profile/chrisvannini.com/post/3ljzzcb2wdc2j

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41582046

IIRC they only routed LATAM traffic through Cloudflare before, but it looks like they're using CF everywhere now.

Yeah, I'm not going to rule out that they migrated /to/ mitigate a cyberattack, but again, holding out for third parties here.

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