Twitter hacking: 'Highest paid Indian-origin tech CEO in US' offers help to Elon Musk after X global outage

Elon Musk revealed a major cyberattack on Twitter, suggesting involvement of a large group or country. Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks, offered assistance in tracing the hackers. Pro-Palestinian group Dark Storm claimed responsibility for the attack, which has links to DDoS tactics. Musk indicated the attack originated from Ukraine.

Hours after Elon Musk acknowledged the X (formerly Twitter) outage and blamed massive cyberattack and that they are trying to trace the hackers, Nikesh Arora, the CEO of Palo Alto Networks, has offered to help the micro-blogging website to trace these hackers.

“Let me know if we can help trace and remediate,” said Arora, who is reportedly the highest paid Indian-origin CEO in the US. His reply came on Musk’s post in which the Tesla CEO said that the platform was hit by a cyberattack and they are trying to trace the hackers.

“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. Tracing …,” wrote Elon Musk in a post on Twitter.

He quoted a post from DogeDesigner that said, “First, protests against DOGE. Then, Tesla stores were attacked. Now, 𝕏 is down. I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that this downtime is the result of an attack on 𝕏.”

Pro-Palestinian cyberhacking group Dark Storm claimed responsibility for hacking X (formerly Twitter). The group shared supporting screenshots on Telegram to back their claim.

Citing an anonymous source in the internet infrastructure industry, news agency Reuters said that X was hit by several waves of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. At its peak, reported outages reached as high as 40,000.

A DDoS attack occurs when multiple compromised devices (often part of a “botnet”) flood a target server, website, or network with excessive traffic. The goal is to overwhelm the system, causing it to become slow, unresponsive, or completely inaccessible to legitimate users.

However, Musk has claimed that the attack originated in Ukraine.

“There was a massive cyber attack trying to bring down the platform with ip addresses originating in the Ukraine area,” he said in an interview.

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