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Ask HN: X and Grok down since the early AM?

25 points by sergiotapia 2y ago

Anyone else seeing this? I'm on east coast, been down for me for hours.

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jeanlucas 2y ago
Down here in Brazil
toomuchtodo 2y ago
X Under Cyberattack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43323111 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43323111 X Is Down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322371 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322371 X (Twitter) Is Down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43318757 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43318757 Is X Down? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43318709 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43318709 X / Twitter down for a third time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43321933 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43321933 X down: Twitter not working amid major outage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43320900 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43320900
neuroelectron 2y ago
I've been trying to post my Wordle score all morning. Before it was actually down, I noticed a glitch where I got a "Sorry, something went wrong" when I tried to mark my image as sensitive (as a spoiler). This leads me to believe that they attack is using image metadata as a vector of attack.
- philomath_mn 2y ago
  Attack? Is there any other indication of an attack? There are many possible root causes which could explain what you observed.
  - whatamidoingyo 2y ago
    Well, Elon just confirmed it. > There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X. > We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.
  - neuroelectron 2y ago
    It's very typical for a DDoS to target some specific feature like this deep in the UI that might have been overlooked for rate limiting.
thuanao 2y ago
Good I hope it never comes back.
sejje 2y ago
Is this the outage everyone promised when he fired everybody? How all that institutional knowledge would be gone forever and the whole thing would definitely come crashing down? Took longer than predicted.
- senordevnyc 2y ago
  Good thing he had you out here just waiting to mount a defense :)
- MeetingsBrowser 2y ago
  FWIW Twitter hasn’t really “worked” since the Elon took over. Only a tiny fraction of tweets can be viewed without signing in. Going to someone’s profile shows tweets in a seemingly random order. Anecdotally, I don’t go to Twitter very often now, but when I do I frequently see the “something went wrong” page. But yeah, if you force users to sign in to view, and also push (allegedly) 80% of those users to other platforms, I guess you can keep things mostly working with a skeleton crew while you dismantle the government.

25 points by sergiotapia 2y ago

Anyone else seeing this? I'm on east coast, been down for me for hours.

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jeanlucas 2y ago

Down here in Brazil

toomuchtodo 2y ago

X Under Cyberattack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43323111 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43323111 X Is Down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322371 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322371 X (Twitter) Is Down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43318757 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43318757 Is X Down? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43318709 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43318709 X / Twitter down for a third time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43321933 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43321933 X down: Twitter not working amid major outage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43320900 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43320900

neuroelectron 2y ago

I've been trying to post my Wordle score all morning. Before it was actually down, I noticed a glitch where I got a "Sorry, something went wrong" when I tried to mark my image as sensitive (as a spoiler). This leads me to believe that they attack is using image metadata as a vector of attack.

philomath_mn 2y ago
Attack? Is there any other indication of an attack? There are many possible root causes which could explain what you observed.
- whatamidoingyo 2y ago
  Well, Elon just confirmed it. > There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X. > We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.
- neuroelectron 2y ago
  It's very typical for a DDoS to target some specific feature like this deep in the UI that might have been overlooked for rate limiting.

thuanao 2y ago

Good I hope it never comes back.

sejje 2y ago

Is this the outage everyone promised when he fired everybody? How all that institutional knowledge would be gone forever and the whole thing would definitely come crashing down? Took longer than predicted.

senordevnyc 2y ago
Good thing he had you out here just waiting to mount a defense :)
MeetingsBrowser 2y ago
FWIW Twitter hasn’t really “worked” since the Elon took over. Only a tiny fraction of tweets can be viewed without signing in. Going to someone’s profile shows tweets in a seemingly random order. Anecdotally, I don’t go to Twitter very often now, but when I do I frequently see the “something went wrong” page. But yeah, if you force users to sign in to view, and also push (allegedly) 80% of those users to other platforms, I guess you can keep things mostly working with a skeleton crew while you dismantle the government.