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Elon Musk, the owner of X (formerly Twitter), said that yesterday’s social networking site outage was due to a large-scale cyberattack, which was carried out by a «large coordinated group and/or country» and later Fox Business comments clarified that it was organized by «IP addresses originating from the territory of Ukraine». As expected, the billionaire did not provide any evidence.
Earlier, the pro-Palestinian hacker group Dark Storm Team claimed responsibility for the attack, according to Newsweek.
Social network X, formerly known as Twitter, was acquired by Musk in 2012 й went through a series of large-scale layoffs — according to the FT, about 80% of employees left the team. In recent years, the platform faced short-term disruptionsbut the latter, which could not be handled within 6 hours, showed that perhaps some of the cuts were in vain.
In fact, the cyberattack on X — is just one of the unpleasant incidents that have happened to the billionaire’s companies in recent days: on Monday Tesla shares fell by 15% amid a broader market crisis (and one of the worst performers in the S&P 500 index
Tesla also suffers from loud protests outside their dealerships because of Elon Musk’s actions as head of the so-called Government Performance and Accountability Office, which is cutting hundreds of government contracts and dismisses tens of thousands of federal employees.
So did Musk, who helped Ukraine at the beginning of the war by launching the Starlink Internet service, increasingly criticizes the Ukrainian government and the assistance that the United States has provided us. On Monday, Elon called Senator Mark Kelly «a traitor» after he wrote that he had visited the military in Ukraine.
Source: Financial Times