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X owner Elon Musk claimed the social media platform was hit with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack as his slated interview with U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump was set to kick off.
There appears to be a massive DDoS attack on X. Working on shutting it down, Musk posted to X on Aug. 12. A DDoS attack aims to flood a network or service with traffic to disrupt and deny legitimate users from being able to use it.
The alleged attack came as technical issues plagued the X Spaces interview Musk and Trump were scheduled to hold at 8:00 pm Eastern Time, with multiple X users complaining they could not join. The site showed the stream was not available, but around 120,000 still managed to join. In a separate post, Musk said X tested the system earlier in the day with eight million concurrent listeners.
