India, March 11 -- Elon Musk, the owner of X, on Monday, blamed Ukrainian forces for the global outage of the social media platform after a hacking team, Darkstorm, had previously taken credit.

In an interview with Fox News, billionaire Elon Musk addressed the cyber attack on X. "We're not sure exactly what happened, but there was a massive cyberattack to bring down the X system with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area," he said.

Musk had earlier issued a statement on X, saying, "There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X. We get attacked everyday, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large coordinated group and/or a country is involved. Tracing."

X (formerly Twitter) suffered repeated outages througho...