Musk blames X outages on alleged ‘massive’ cyberattack

X experienced prolonged, globally observed outages that multiple sources characterized as a large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack; Elon Musk and internet monitors reported the incident, and the group Dark Storm Team claimed responsibility though provided no verifiable evidence. The report contextualizes the outage within ongoing DDoS-for-hire activity and recent law-enforcement takedowns targeting such services.