What caused the X outage?
On March 10, 2025, X’s services went down for many users, causing frustration and confusion across the platform.
The outages were significant enough to make headlines and draw attention from the tech community and the media. Elon Musk, ever the outspoken owner, quickly attributed the disruptions to a “massive cyberattack.”
While the initial response was that the attack might have originated from a coordinated group or even a nation-state, Musk’s comments pointed to Ukrainian IP addresses as the suspected source. However, he later clarified that the evidence was not definitive.
Also, several cybersecurity experts emphasized that attributing the source of such attacks based solely on IP addresses is unreliable, as attackers often use compromised devices worldwide to mask their actual location.
So, what was the cause of X’s disruption?
It was a large-scale, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Such attacks involve