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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Saqib Shah

Who are Anonymous Sudan? Hacker group behind behind Twitter outage mocks Elon Musk’s rebrand

A prolific hacktivist group known as Anonymous Sudan has taken credit for a widespread outage that affected X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday.

At one stage, there were more than 2,700 incidents of people in the UK reporting issues with X, and thousands more in the US, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks problems with online services.

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