Twitter/X Outage — Attributed to Ukraine by Musk

Twitter/X suffered a significant service disruption in early 2025. CEO Elon Musk publicly attributed the outage to a DDoS attack originating from Ukrainian IP addresses, sharing this claim widely on the platform. Security researchers and network analysts broadly disputed the attribution, noting that the evidence presented was inconsistent with a state-level attack and that IP geolocation alone cannot reliably attribute attack traffic to a specific actor.

The service disruption and Musk’s attribution claims both received wide coverage.