X Details
X
San Francisco, California • 4698 employees • Media and Entertainment
https://x.com/home
United States
Industry
Media and Entertainment
Security Incidents
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X, formerly known as Twitter, is a social media and microblogging service that allows users to post and interact with short messages known as "tweets." The platform was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and was launched in March 2006. Since its inception, the service has grown to become one of the largest social media platforms globally, known for its real-time information sharing and a significant impact on news, politics, and public discourse.
Over the years, Twitter has introduced various features such as hashtags, retweets, and direct messages. In recent dev...
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Security Incidents
X Breach of Aug 2024
Musk announced that the interview would continue with a reduced audience and later promised to release an unedited audio version. Downdetector, a site that monitors technical issues, recorded a spike in complaints coinci...
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Given the scale of the attack, its timing during a high-profile event, and the platform's repeated...
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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 intellectua...
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Severity Score
Moderate
Type
Denial of Service (DoS) AttackSummary
On August 12, 2024, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's much-anticipated interview faced significant disruptions due to a DDoS attack on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter). The attack, which occurred less than 20 minutes into the interview, overwhelmed the platform with excessive queries, causing widespread technical issues.Musk announced that the interview would continue with a reduced audience and later promised to release an unedited audio version. Downdetector, a site that monitors technical issues, recorded a spike in complaints coinci...
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Severity
The DDoS attack on August 12, 2024, targeting the X platform during Elon Musk and Donald Trump's interview, caused significant disruptions, compromising the platform less than 20 minutes into the event. The overwhelming volume of queries led to widespread technical issues, forcing the continuation of the interview with a reduced audience and delaying the release of an unedited audio version. Despite the attack, more than 15 million individuals accessed the playback, reflecting the high interest.Given the scale of the attack, its timing during a high-profile event, and the platform's repeated...
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Impact
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 intellectua...
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