Elon Musk took to X on Monday to share his belief that the attack had been carried out “with a lot of resources”. He went on to claim that "either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved", followed by his later comments on Fox Business that it came from “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area”.

A massive denial of service attack linked to the notorious hacker group DarkStorm hit Elon Musk's social media platform X on Monday.

Social media platform X went down intermittently on Monday, with owner Elon Musk blaming an unusually powerful cyberattack.

“What Mr. Musk has said is wholly unconvincing based on the evidence so far. It's pretty much garbage," Ciaran Martin, a former chief executive of the United Kingdom's cybersecurity agency, who now teaches at Oxford University, told the BBC on Tuesday morning.

Isik Mater, the director of research at NetBlocks, a company that tracks global internet connectivity, told NBC News that X had suffered intermittent outages since Monday morning. While establishing a DDoS attack with certainty can be difficult, Mater said, Musk’s claim was plausible.

U.S. officials have not determined who was behind an apparent cyberattack on the social media site X that limited access to the platform for thousands of users

Platform outage monitor Downdetector said it had seen more than 350,000 reports of issues from US users on Monday.

Elon Musk blamed widespread disruptions on his social media platform X on a “massive cyberattack,” which he claimed was orchestrated by a “large, coordinated group” or country. Tens of thousands of users globally reported intermittent outages on X on Monday,