Article in The New York Times by Kate Conger and Christing Hauser, 3/10/25

Headline:  “Bad Day for X and Tesla Prompts Concern About Musk’s Distractions”

Subhead:  “The billionaire’s social media site X suffered outages, and Tesla’s stock tanked on Monday.”

“Elon Musk is facing questions about how much attention he is paying to his businesses as he advises President Trump on the direction of the federal government.

“The questions have mounted as Mr. Musk’s business empire — which includes the electric car maker Tesla, the social media site X and the rocket maker SpaceX — has run into challenges.

“On Monday, users of X reported widespread outages. The same day, Tesla’s stock fell more than 15 percent amid concerns that include declining electric vehicle sales and politically driven protests against the manufacturer. . . ”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/technology/twitter-x-down-outage.html

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Article in AP by Michelle Chapman and Barbara Ortutay, 3/10/25

Headline:  “Elon Musk Claims X being targeted in ‘massive cyberattack’ as service goes down”

. . . “ ‘We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources,’ Musk claimed in a post. ‘Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved. Tracing . . .’

“Later on Monday, Musk said on Fox Business Network’s Kudlow that the attackers had “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” without going into detail on what this might mean.

“Cybersecurity experts quickly pointed out, however, that this doesn’t necessarily mean that an attack originated in Ukraine. Security researcher Kevin Beaumont said on Bluesky that Musk’s claim is ‘missing a key fact — it was actually IPs from worldwide, not just Ukraine.’ ”

https://apnews.com/article/x-musk-twitter-outage-california-0268a8b035aaa277c0287e7c82b6081e