“What Mr. Musk has said is wholly unconvincing based on the evidence so far. It's pretty much garbage," Ciaran Martin, a former chief executive of the United Kingdom's cybersecurity agency, who now teaches at Oxford University, told the BBC on Tuesday morning.

Elon Musk blamed widespread disruptions on his social media platform X on a “massive cyberattack,” which he claimed was orchestrated by a “large, coordinated group” or country. Tens of thousands of users globally reported intermittent outages on X on Monday,