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X CEO Elon Musk faced technical glitches before his interview with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Due to this, viewers also faced problems in accessing the live stream, due to which his interview started 45 minutes late. Musk has blamed cyber attackers for this.
Elon Musk tweets about DDoS attack
Giving information in this regard on X, CEO Elon Musk said that it appears that there has been a massive DDoS attack. It is in the process of shutting down. In the worst case scenario we are going live with a small number of our viewers and will post the conversation with Donald Trump later.
We have already tested
In another tweet, he said, “We conducted the trial today with 80 lakh viewers in attendance.” He further said that, we noticed that some users were unable to access the site page at 8 pm. However, within a few minutes, more than 1,15,000 people had successfully connected to the streaming.
Donald Trump shared the video and information of the live interview
Before the US presidential election, Elon Musk was going to do a live interview of Republican Party candidate Donald Trump. Trump has shared a video of this on his social media platform. Musk announced that he will have a live conversation with Donald Trump on August 12 at 8 pm US time. He said that their conversation will be unscripted and no agenda has been set for it.
Trump returns to Twitter (x).
Ahead of the November 5, 2024 presidential election in the United States, Republican Party candidate Donald Trump has returned to social media platform X (formerly Twitter). Ahead of a live interview with X owner Elon Musk, Trump posted a campaign video on the social media platform.
Trump's Twitter account was permanently banned in 2021
It is worth noting that Trump's Twitter account was permanently banned after the US Capitol violence in 2021. Which is now known as X after Musk's acquisition. After this, Donald Trump launched his own social media platform called Truth Social. Even after his account was restored last year, Trump was not that active on the social media platform and used Truth Social for his posts. After the account suspension was lifted, Trump made the first post on X in August 2023, in which he shared a photo with a mugshot. Election interference was never dedicated to this.
What is a DDoS attack?
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a method of disrupting the normal traffic of a targeted server, service, or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with Internet traffic.
Microsoft provides information about DDoS attacks
According to Microsoft “During a DDoS attack, a series of bots, or botnets, flood a website or service with HTTP requests and traffic. Essentially during an attack many computers attack a single computer and lock out legitimate users. As a result any service or streaming that the platform has started may be delayed or stopped for some time.
Hackers can access sensitive information
Microsoft further said that 'It is possible that hackers can also infiltrate your database and access sensitive information during an attack. A DDoS attack can exploit security vulnerabilities and target any endpoint that is publicly accessible via the Internet.'