Mumbai, August 13: Recently Elon Musk and Donald Trump online interview was crashed and interrupted by technical problems. Several users joined the conversation between the tech billionaire and 45th president of the United States of America. Elon Musk posted on X about rescheduling his interview on X next time with limited users onboard.

During the interview between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, users were unable to join the audio conversation on X Spaces. Elon Musk concluded that it was a malicious DDoS attack which marred the interview causing several technical glitches. The much-awaited interview was set to begin on 8 PM ET on Monday but due to massive crashes caused by a potential cyberattack sabotaged it. Elon Musk’s Donald Trump Interview Marred by Technical Glitches, Users Unable To Join Audio Conversation on X’s Spaces Platform; Tesla CEO Says Its a Malicious Attack.

What is DDoS Attack That Disrupted Elon Musk-Donald Trump Interview?

DDoS meaning distributed-denial-of-service is a cyberattack aimed at disrupting normal traffic of targeted server, network or a service. DDoS attack is considered a federal criminal act in the United States as it floods a website with a data that leads to a profile knock out making it offline. The hackers attempt this type of attack by utilising several compromised computer systems as source of the attack traffic.

In simple words, the DDoS attack is considered as unexpected traffic jam that stops the normal traffic (here the interested users) to reach to the destination. According to Downdetector, before the interview of Elon Musk with Donald Trump began, several X users started facing the technical issues such as not being able to access the platform. Elon Musk already posted that he ran some tests on X to ensure the interview would go smooth. However, it was marred likely by threat actors. Elon Musk Donald Trump Interview: European Commissioner Warns Tech Billionaire, CEO Linda Yaccarino To Comply With EU’s DSA Law Amid Risk of Harmful Content.

Following the failure, the tech billionaire posted on X, "There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on 𝕏. Working on shutting it down." The Elon Musk and Donald Trump's interview was expected to touch different topics such as politics, crypto, artificial intelligence and business. However, the unexpected glitches caused by potentially an pre-planned DDoS attack sabotaged the entire interview, forcing the Tesla CEO to reschedule it again in the future.

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