India, Oct. 16 -- Amid widespread YouTube outages on Monday hitting multiple country, with the US being most affected, theories surfaced that a DOOS attack could be behind it. An X account with the name Dark Storm Team - a reference to the infamous hacker group, claimed that they have launched a DDOS attack on X. However, as of now, no confirmation of the same exists.

On Wednesday afternoon, more than 300,000 users reported facing an outage with YouTube in the United States. Users on social media said that they got a 'Playback Error' when trying to access services on YouTube, YouTube TV, and YouTube Music. The claims about the DDOS attack surfaced amid that widespread outage.

Hindustan Times could not verify the authenticity of the clai...