By Ricardo Lezama 
Billionaire and now government coup director, Elon Musk, publicly complained that the website X (formerly known as Twitter) was under attack. The outage appeared to be the result of a denial early morning of service attack. That carried well into the later afternoon hours.
Musk later acknowledged that the platform had experienced a site-wide disruption. “We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources,” he wrote in a post on X, the site formerly known as Twitter.
According to Bloomberg News, Dark Storm, a pro-Palestinian ‘hacktivist’ group, took credit for the attack via its Telegram page, but has not provided proof that it was behind the disruptions. A representative for Dark Storm told Bloomberg News that the attack was part of a wider hacktivist effort against Israel.
Despite the admission, further proof could be necessary and their links to state run hacking organizations or status as one themselves could help explain the efficacy of the attack.
Unfortunately, for Musk, the attacks on his platforms are not only cyber related. Physical attacks on points of sales have sent shares in Tesla to record lows. Just today, these shares took their biggest hit since 2020 on Monday, as analysts cut their projections for vehicle deliveries for the year.
The brand damage is real. The electric vehicle brand is facing blowback from its base of climate-conscious consumers who associate it with Musk’s more conservative politics. Musk personal fortune is down $148 billion since the last trading day before the inauguration, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index