Hackers target X (formerly Twitter), want Elon Musk to launch Starlink in Sudan

A hacking group known as “Anonymous Sudan” temporarily took down Twitter, now referred to as X, in more than a dozen countries on Tuesday morning, as reported by the BBC. Their motive: to exert pressure on Elon Musk to launch his Starlink satellite internet service in Sudan.

X experienced an outage lasting over two hours due to a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, affecting thousands of users. A DDoS attack involves overwhelming a server with excessive requests, rendering it inaccessible.

Downdetector, a site tracking service outages, registered nearly 20,000 outage reports from users in the US and the UK.