Cyber Incident Victim: X
Date:
Feb 2026
Location:
United States of America
Summary
A global outage disrupted social media platform X, impacting tens of thousands of users across multiple countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, and India. Users were unable to load posts or access the platform, with reports peaking at over 25,000 complaints; similar disruptions were also reported concurrently on Cloudflare, Amazon Web Services, and Monday.com, continuing a pattern of recent outages affecting major internet platforms.
| CIA Posture | Motives | Tactics, Techniques & Procedures |
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| Available to members | 0 motives | 0 techniques |
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Description
On February 16, 2026, social media platform X experienced a widespread global outage affecting users in multiple countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and India. The disruption began around 13:00 GMT, as indicated by a sharp spike in reports on outage tracking site Downdetector. Reports peaked at over 25,000 complaints during the incident. Affected users were unable to load posts or access the X platform entirely. The specific cause of this outage was not immediately known. X did not respond to requests for comment regarding the disruption. This incident represented the latest in a series of service interruptions impacting major internet platforms.
The outage affecting X occurred alongside similar disruptions reported by users on Cloudflare, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Monday.com. This event mirrored a previous outage experienced by X in March 2025. The incident added to a pattern of technical problems affecting prominent technology services in recent months. Notably, a Cloudflare service outage in November of the previous year had resulted in downtime for numerous websites, including X. Microsoft's Azure cloud platform had also encountered technical issues during the prior year. Furthermore, an outage at Amazon Web Services in October had disrupted thousands of websites and widely used applications such as Snapchat and Reddit. The February 16th outage on X and other platforms continued this trend of significant service interruptions impacting users globally.