What was the impact of the X incident of Aug 01, 2024?

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In the recent incident involving the much-anticipated Musk-Trump interview on X, the platform faced a significant Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. This type of cyber incident aims to overwhelm a service with superfluous requests, causing server overloads and rendering the service temporarily inoperable. As a result, the streaming of the interview experienced major disruptions, forcing Musk to proceed with a reduced audience size and to release the full conversation as an unedited audio recording later. No customer data was exposed, nor were any internal company data or intellectual property stolen during the attack. Moreover, no source code or other sensitive data appeared to have been leaked as part of this event. The immediate impact centered around service downtime and public questioning of the platform's resilience, highlighted by the spike in outage reports captured by Downdetector. While the incident garnered intense speculation about its origins, no concrete confirmation has been provided on the identity or motivations of the attackers.

X Data Breach Aug 2024

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VPN/SASE

IDS/IPS

EDR

MDM

SSO / MFA

IGA

WAF

SCA

CASB

CWPP

SIEM

TIP

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