Massive X Cyber Attack, Global Outage Claimed by the Dark Storm Team on Telegram, Elon Musk Confirms the Incident
Published on March 11, 2025
- Elon Musk confirmed on X that the social media platform is investigating an ongoing cyber attack.
- The X outage is likely conducted using several resources by the Dark Storm Team.
- Either large coordinated groups, or a country is speculated to be responsible for the security incident impacting X formerly Twitter.
Elon Musk confirmed on the social media platform X formerly Twitter that it is recovering from an ongoing cyber attack. Affirming that the platform gets targeted fairly frequently, Musk said that this cyber attack was launched with ‘a lot of resources,’ pointing towards the impact of the incident.
Musk further posted that the investigations are ongoing to trace the culprit. The X cyber attack was experienced on March 10, 2025. Multiple outages were reported, which were purportedly claimed by the 'Dark Storm Team' according to a summary of the incident shared by Grok, a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI.
The summary further read that the group Dark Storm Team claimed on Telegram that they disrupted some services on X.
Suggesting that a large coordinated group or a country might be involved in this outage, a social media post by Elon addressed the incident as a 'massive' cyber attack which was under investigation.
Investigators have not found the motive behind the cybercrime at the time of posting. Another account on X associated with Musk, DogeDesigner addressed the incident stating, “First, protests against DOGE. Then, Tesla stores were attacked. Now, X is down.”
In January, a Tesla Cybertruck was set afire outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas.
The repeated targeting of the Tesla and SpaceX owner and his assets point towards tactics to suppress him from his forthcoming plans and actions. He received severe criticism for having his team, DOGE, gain access to the financial information of people.
A lawsuit was filed by labor unions and an advisory group of retired workers, including the American Federation of Government Employees. It blamed the U.S. Treasury Department, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and the Bureau of Fiscal Service for letting the Bureau’s data and its computers be accessed by the DOGE members.
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