Elon Musk Blames Ukraine for X Outage Amid Darkstorm Hacking Claims

On Monday, Elon Musk, who owns the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), said that Ukrainian forces might be behind a major cyberattack that caused the site to go down. A hacking group called Darkstorm claimed they were responsible for taking X offline. In a chat with Fox News, Musk explained, “We don’t know exactly what happened, but there was a huge cyberattack on X coming from IP addresses in Ukraine.”

In a post on X, Musk said, “There is a big cyberattack against X. We get attacked every day, but this one took a lot of resources. It looks like a large team or a nation is involved.”

Many people reported problems using X, including around 2,000 users in India, 18,000 in the US, and 10,000 in the UK. Darkstorm, which supports Palestine and often targets countries that back Israel, said they were behind the attack.

As tensions grew between the US and Ukraine, Musk shared worries about Ukrainian groups that might be working with USAID, and even mentioned that some officials from the Trump administration were being targeted. However, Musk assured that his Starlink communications service would keep running in Ukraine no matter what. “To be clear, even if I disagree with Ukraine’s policies, Starlink will never shut down,” Musk stated.