Twitter hacking: Elon Musk receives assistance from the "highest paid Indian-origin tech CEO in the US" following the X global outage.

Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks, has offered to assist the microblogging website in locating the hackers, hours after Elon Musk acknowledged the X (formerly Twitter) outage and blamed a massive cyberattack. “Let me know if we can help trace and remediate,” said Arora, who is reportedly the highest paid Indian-origin CEO in the US.  His response was in Musk's post, where the Tesla CEO said that a cyberattack had affected the platform and that they were trying to find the hackers.

"There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against 𝕏.  Every day, we are attacked, but this was accomplished with a lot of resources. There is either a large, well-organized group or a nation involved. "Tracing...," Elon Musk wrote in a tweet. Twitter is down: He cited DogeDesigner's post, which stated, "First, protests against DOGE." Then, people attacked Tesla stores. Now, 𝕏 is down.

I wouldn't rule out the possibility that an attack on X is the cause of this downtime. The pro-Palestinian group Dark Storm claims responsibility for the cyberattack on Twitter. The X (formerly Twitter) hack was claimed by the pro-Palestinian cyberhacking group Dark Storm. On Telegram, the group provided screenshots to back up their claim. According to the news agency Reuters, X was the target of multiple waves of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, citing an unidentified source within the internet infrastructure industry. Up to 40,000 outages were reported at its height.

A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack occurs when a large number of compromised devices, often a "botnet," flood a target server, website, or network with too much traffic. The objective is to overburden the system, rendering it sluggish, unresponsive, or completely unavailable to authorized users. Musk, on the other hand, has stated that Ukraine was the location of the attack. He stated in an interview, "There was a massive cyber attack trying to bring down the platform with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area."