The Good Tech Companies - X Outage Exposes Musk's Poor Digital Hygiene

Episode Date: March 11, 2025

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/x-outage-exposes-musks-poor-digital-hygiene. Musk claims a 'massive cyberattack' is behind a Twitter/X outage impacting thousands globally, but skepticism arises over the lack of evidence. Learn about the Check more stories related to cybersecurity at: https://hackernoon.com/c/cybersecurity. You can also check exclusive content about #cyberattacks, #ddos-attack, #x-outage, #elon-musk-ddos-attack, #elon-musk-outage, #good-company, #is-x-down, #hackernoon-top-story, and more. This story was written by: @redact. Learn more about this writer by checking @redact's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Twitter/X had a massive outage on Monday morning EST, with spikes surging. Elon Musk claimed this was due to a “massive cyberattack" against X. Media skepticism is rife, citing the lack of evidence and Elon's track record.

This audio is presented by Hacker Noon, where anyone can learn anything about any technology. X outage exposes Musk's poor digital hygiene, by redact.dev. Twitter X had a massive outage on Monday morning EST, with down detector spikes surging. In a post, Elon Musk has claimed this was due to a, massive cyber attack, against X. Mashable seems skeptical of Elon, citing the lack of evidence in Musk's reporting, alongside his prior claim that Trump suffered an attack in August, 2024 which ex-employees said was untrue, corroborated via The Verge. Though we're unsure if, skeptical, is fair, given Elon as Twitter's biggest misinformation spreader according to both

Reuters and his own AI, Grok, this could be an attack squarely designed to Russell Elon's jimmies considering the recent spate of vandalism against Musk's Tesla. The Guardian, CNN, News.com, The Washington Post, or it could have some other malicious intent. Given the recent Doge site vulnerabilities, and his evident deprioritization of transparency reporting at Twitter, ex. Musk is developing a reputation for poor digital hygiene and relaxed security practices. Did the Twitter, ex. outage leak data?

Given Doje's digital track record, cost-cutting focus, and lack of transparency this cyber-attack should post considerable concerns for anyone on Twitter, ex. Let's understand why. 1. Twitter, ex. is vulnerable to cyber attacks. It is likely bad actors will exploit the platform's poor security for malicious purposes in future. 2. Potential for data breaches, no data leak has been reported this time, though Elon has not shared the root cause of the attack. There is a real potential that future attacks will

involve capturing user data. 3. Elon is controversial. As a billionaire politician, Musk is a hugely polarizing figure. Hactivist groups may target X specifically due to Elon's ownership of the platform. 4. Twitter had a data breach in 2023. The probability of this happening again will only increase as more groups and individuals target X. 200 million email addresses were leaked. While we hope you are not impacted directly by the security practices at Twitter we wouldn't recommend risking your data in future attacks and data breaches.

You can secure your Twitter profile easily, and for free in a few basic steps. How to secure your Twitter xProfile. The most secure Twitter profile is probably the one that doesn't exist, but, if you need to be on the platform, we recommend, 1. Review your account history and delete all old content, or content with any personal information. You can set up targeted mass deletion with our app. Just download Redact and follow the steps here.

2. We recommend requesting your data from Twitter, so you have a local copy. 3. Alias as much personal information attached to your account as possible, and set a totally unique password, in the event of a data breach, you don't want important emails or passwords leaked. 4. Consider deleting your account altogether. We'd recommend working through the steps above before you do this. While Twitter, ex-cyberattacks are worrying, if you take the proper steps you can mitigate the potential damage this does to you.

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