The NFL’s free agency period kicked off on Monday as the league’s legal tampering phase began, allowing players to start engaging with teams and negotiating deals. However, fans had difficulty accessing the latest updates as X experienced intermittent outages throughout both the morning and afternoon. Now, CEO and owner Elon Musk has provided an explanation for the cause of the disruption.
In a social media post on Monday afternoon, Elon Musk confirmed that X was experiencing intermittent outages and explained that they were due to what he called a “massive cyberattack,” which he believes was carried out by a “coordinated group” or possibly even a foreign nation.
“There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X. We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved. Tracing …” Musk said in a post on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
According to Ben Axelrod from Awful Announcing, Musk’s social media platform “initially suffered an outage overnight, with thousands of users reporting issues early Monday morning. Although services were briefly restored, the site and app went down again just before 10 a.m. ET, with more than 40,000 users reporting problems, as per DownDetector.com.”
This forced several top insiders to use different social media platforms to share breaking news throughout one of the busiest days of the NFL offseason.
Needless to say, this was all horrible news for Musk and X, and it led to a lot of reactions on social media.
“Here’s your biggest problem: Because you lie so much, nobody should believe you here,” former congressman Joe Walsh wrote in a post on X.
“It would have to be enormous,” another person added.
“Musk can’t keep X operational, but his team now has access to essentially all U.S. workers’ sensitive personal information,” someone else added.
“It was probably a couple rowdy teenagers that desperately want you to log off,” another person quipped.
“Sabotaging X on the start of NFL free agency is savage,” someone else added.
The social media site returned to functionality throughout the afternoon.
