https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/10/elon-musk-x-falls-cyberattack-00221841Elon Musk is asserting his social media site X has been deluged by a “massive cyberattack” Monday following weeks of upheaval about his cost-cutting crusade across the federal government.
The purported cyberattack, which has impacted users since at least Monday morning, has destabilized many features on his website like viewing posts and user profiles. “We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources,” Musk wrote on X. “Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.”
It comes days after people across the country took to the storefronts of his car company Tesla to protest Musk’s allegiance with the Trump administration. Some fired shots at an Oregon dealership last week, while others in Manhattan stormed a showroom.
Speaking to Fox Business on Monday afternoon after the outage, Musk said the attack could have originated in Ukraine, though did not provide any evidence to support his accusation.
“We’re not sure exactly what happened, but there was a massive cyberattack to try to bring down the X system with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area,” he said.
Musk has been on increasingly acrimonious terms with Kyiv, calling for a halt to American aid and publicly lambasting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Ukraine for its part has accused Musk of spreading pro-Russian propaganda via X.
The tech billionaire’s quasi-government agency, called the Department of Government Efficiency, has orchestrated cuts to thousands of federal government workers and has roiled many Americans impacted by the reductions. Now, scientific research at universities, cleanup services at national parks and efforts to curb bird flu have been diminished as the federal government looks to readjust after Musk’s hack-and-slash directive.
