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Massive X Outage Affects Users Globally Following Cyberattack

2/16/2026

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On February 16, 2026, Elon Musk-owned social platform X suffered an outage affecting users in India, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
Downdetector logged over 41,000 issues in the United States and about 3,357 in India.
Users could not log in, refresh feeds, or post updates.
Services appeared to restore within about an hour, but X did not comment on the cause.
The outage followed a March 2025 cyberattack.

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Story summary

On February 16, 2026, Elon Musk-owned social platform X suffered an outage affecting users in India, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
Downdetector logged over 41,000 issues in the United States and about 3,357 in India.
Users could not log in, refresh feeds, or post updates.
Services appeared to restore within about an hour, but X did not comment on the cause.
The outage followed a March 2025 cyberattack.