Has a two -hour failure at online service X Elon Musk (53) To the announcement that he wants to concentrate more on the management of his companies again. “As the X-operating problems showed this week, larger operational improvements are due,” said Musk after the breakdown at X on Saturday. An Internet consulting group, however, said that a hacker attack had led to the failure.
“I am at work around the week again around the o’clock seven days a week and sleep in conference/server/factory rooms,” added the entrepreneur, who was born in South Africa. The billionaire has an exceptionally full diary as the owner or boss of X, the AI developer Xai with the chatbot Grok, the electric car maker Tesla and the space company SpaceX.
Hacker group responsible for failure at X?
SpaceX announced on Friday that it would like to send its new giant rocket Starship back into space next week. The top stage of the rocket had exploded in the two previous test flights.
Since the reinstall of President Donald Trump (78) In the White House in January, Musk was also the driving force behind the government department for state efficiency (Doge) and drove a massive cost and personnel reduction in the US state apparatus. Finally, Musk announced that this activity restrict this activity.
Musk explained that the “decisive work” of the government department for state efficiency is “largely done”, he now wanted to devote himself to Tesla again in April. Shortly before, Tesla had announced that the sales figure of the US car maker had stayed behind the expectations in the first quarter.
“I have to concentrate well on X/XAI and Tesla (and the Starship start next week) because we are launching important technologies,” said Musk. The online service X had failed around 3 p.m. CEST. At around 5 p.m. it worked largely normal.
The Site Intelligence Group consultant group explained that the Hacker Group has known for the failure at X. Dienet described the attack as the “test” of its so-called DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) skills. The system is flooded with online data traffic to paralyze access to the website. The AFP news agency could initially not check whether Dienet was actually responsible for the failure. X did not respond to an inquiry from AFP for comment.
Again and again there are problems with X, most recently around March 10th. At that time, Musk blamed a “massive cyber attack”. Critics linked the frequent problems in the past to the fact that after taking on Twitter/X, Musk had saved personnel and infrastructure.
The tech billionaire, who invested more than $ 235 million (around 206 million euros) in Trump’s election campaign, also said this week that he would no longer invest his money in politics. However, he did not rule out projects in the future “if I see a reason for it”.