Users of the popular social media platform X were highly disappointed on Monday as the service was repeatedly rendered unusable during multiple outages throughout the morning.

According to the platform's CEO, tech billionaire Elon Musk, those outages were the result of deliberate cyberattacks that he attributed to "a large, coordinated group and/or a country," NewsNation reported.

It remains unclear at this point who is responsible for the apparent cyberattacks that temporarily took down X, but at least one group has claimed credit for the attacks while some fingers have also been pointed at Ukraine and Russia.

X taken down briefly with multiple cyberattacks

NewsNation reported that there were at least three separate but likely related cyberattacks that caused outages for thousands of X users throughout Monday morning, with the first occurring around 6:30 am ET, followed by a second one around 10 am and a third shortly after 11 am.

In each instance, users of the platform on both the mobile app and web version reported seeing messages that stated "Something went wrong. Try reloading," only for the reload button to not work, prompting tens of thousands of outage reports.

Around noon on Monday, in response to a follower noting the attacks on X in conjunction with protests against DOGE and physical attacks against Tesla vehicles, Musk posted on X, "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 …," he added.

Another of Musk's followers commented on the post with the presumption that the attacks were an effort to "silence" Musk and the platform, to which Musk simply replied, "Yes."

Known hacker group claims credit for attacks while Musk points finger at Ukraine

According to a series of updated reports from Newsweek, the cyberattacks appeared to be what are known as distributed denial-of-service, or DDoS, and a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel hacker group known as Dark Storm Team, which allegedly has ties to Russia, quickly took credit as being responsible for the attacks that briefly took down the X platform.

A short time later, after the platform's service had been fully restored, Musk appeared on Fox Business and was asked by host Larry Kudlow about the possible "foreign-sourced" cyberattacks, to which Musk replied, "We're not sure exactly what happened, but there was a massive cyber attack to try and bring down the X system with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area."

However, multiple cybersecurity experts have pointed out that just because IP addresses from Ukraine were spotted as part of the cyberattacks doesn't necessarily mean that the attacks actually originated in that country.

Trump signals his continued support for Musk

The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that the U.S. government, according to at least one unnamed Trump administration official, hadn't yet determined who was responsible for the cyberattacks against the X platform, though the incidents were being taken "seriously" and an investigation had ensued.

Meanwhile, as one of Musk's followers had noted, his work with DOGE to substantially reduce federal spending has prompted outraged protests from leftists as well as protests and even physical attacks against one of Musk's other companies, Tesla, and its distinctive electric vehicles and dealerships.

The heightened and increasingly vitriolic resistance against Musk even prompted President Donald Trump to issue a Monday night statement on Truth Social in support of his friend and advisor that heralded the "fantastic job" he's been doing, and stated, "I’m going to buy a brand new Tesla tomorrow morning as a show of confidence and support for Elon Musk, a truly great American. Why should he be punished for putting his tremendous skills to work in order to help MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN???"