Musk claims hundreds of gigabytes of data were saturated.
X boss Elon Musk has blamed a ‘massive’ cyber-attack on technical problems which delayed a live chat with Donald Trump.
The interview, due to start at 1am UK time on Tuesday, was put back by more than 40 minutes by technical problems with Musk blaming a cyber-attack on the platform, according to The Mirror.
Opening the conversation, Musk said a “massive distributed denial-of-service attack against our servers” which “saturates all of our data lines” where “hundreds of gigabytes of data were saturated.”
“As this massive attack illustrates, there’s a lot of opposition to people just hearing what President Trump has to say.”
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
