Elon Musk has claimed a cyber attack on his social media platform X on Monday was orchestrated by “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area”, the latest in a series of recent troubles for his business interests after he joined US President Donald Trump’s administration.
The billionaire, who has morphed into a fierce critic of the Ukrainian government and its war against Russia, provided no evidence for the allegation, made in an interview with Fox Business on Monday, nor did he claim that state actors were necessarily involved.
Earlier in the day, Musk posted that “either a large, co-ordinated group and/or a country” was responsible for the attack on X, which led to broad outages across the US and elsewhere.