WASHINGTON (AP) — 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, according to a Trump administration official familiar with the ongoing investigation into the matter.
Monday’s outage was described as a cyberattack by the official, who was not authorized to comment publicly on the matter and spoke Tuesday on the condition of anonymity. The official added that the Republican administration takes all cyberattacks against American companies seriously but underscored that the U.S. government had not gleaned any specific intelligence about who might have been behind the attack.
The comments came after Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X and a top adviser to President Donald Trump, claimed in an appearance on Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow” show that the cyberattackers had “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” without going into detail on what that might mean.
Cybersecurity experts quickly pointed out, however, that this doesn’t necessarily mean that the attack originated in Ukraine.
I wonder if the winding down of US Cyber Reach against Russia being diminished had something to do with it…
False flag. Put the blame on ukraine. pressure them harder.
trump, putin and muski are so transparent
Musk probably did it to himself to muster support
We sure it wasn’t just incompetence?
Yeah at this point I’m surprised you need to hack it before it’ll stop working.
The group responsible has already claimed responsibility.
Multiple groups claimed credit for it.
Same as pretty much every Cyber attack.
Even when it’s not a cyber attack, someone is going to claim credit.
Wouldn’t surprise me if the agencies simply didn’t have the manpower or competence to investigate it even with most of the work already done for them.
It was the spirit of justice and fuck you.
Sounds like an inside job. Has anyone asked Adrian Dittman?
Well, they should put Bigballs on the investigation, his expertise will solve it in the blink of an eye.