Why Did X Crash? Elon Musk Reveals the Shocking Truth Behind the Cyber Attack

17.03.2025 - 01:59

X users were left in the dark as the platform faced its biggest outage yet, leaving millions of people unable to log in for hours. The mysterious crash sparked outrage, and questions flooded in about its cause. In a bombshell reveal, Elon Musk confirmed the platform was hit by a massive cyber attack—but that’s not all. He shocked the world by linking the attack to Ukraine. What’s behind this unprecedented hack? Keep reading to find out what Musk had to say and the potential implications for X’s future!

X experienced four outages on Monday, March 10.

According to Downdetector.com, the first outage on the X platform occurred at 6:30 AM New York local time. By 9:30 AM, 40,000 users reported access issues with X. This access problem was experienced in all countries. While X intermittently returned to normal and posts were made, X went down four times in total. Finally, X was partially accessible around 8:30 PM in Turkey, but by 9:00 PM, it crashed again. While waiting for a statement from X owner Elon Musk on the issue, Musk made a post on the X platform, which had been restored at 8:30 PM, to clarify the situation.

Elon Musk pointed to Ukraine as the source of the attacks on X. In a post on X, Musk stated that they were under a major cyberattack.

'There was a major cyberattack on X (it's still ongoing). We are attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. It's likely a large, coordinated group and/or a country.'

Pointing to a coordinated group and/or a country, Elon Musk gave an interview to Fox Business Network after the cyberattack was resolved. Musk stated that the cyberattack originated from Ukraine. 'A large-scale cyberattack was carried out with IP addresses from Ukraine to crash the X system.'

There had been tension between Musk and Ukraine in recent days. Musk had said, 'If I turn off Starlink, Ukraine's frontline will collapse.' The response came from Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski: 'If Starlink, for which we paid $50 million, is unreliable, we will look for other providers.' Musk, irritated by this response, replied, 'Shut up, little man! You're only paying a small part of the cost.'