US Attorney General Todd Blanche said on 2026-09-02 that the US Justice Department is working with Elon Musk's X/Twitter to identify those behind an attempted password-recovery attack that targeted hundreds of thousands of users this week. ^[1] A video circulating on social media since September 1st shows a couple in a busy supermarket in Mexico sampling ice cream from a refrigerated display. ^[2] Researchers presented ContraNote, a large-scale real-world dataset curated from X's Community Notes system to support conflict verification tasks. ^[3] The study defines ragebait as online content intentionally designed to provoke anger or outrage to increase attention and engagement. ^[4] Blanche said in a statement on X that 'sophisticated cyber criminals' attempted the attack, but the platform was able to disrupt it. ^[5] The cyberattack on X comes days after the US Justice Department announced an operation targeting QTFY, a Chinese cyberespionage platform. ^[6] The US Justice Department said the US Senate, Federal Reserve, NASA, and other organizations were among those targeted by the QTFY cyberespionage platform. ^[7] Social media users have accused the couple in the video of testing different flavors of ice cream, though the footage does not clearly show if this occurred. ^[8] The couple was observed testing the ice cream discreetly without realizing they were being recorded by other people in the location. ^[9] The ContraNote dataset includes 33,686 posts for evaluating evidence-level conflict resolution and 54,474 instances for evaluating aggregation-level prioritization. ^[10] The CoVer framework achieves 88.5% accuracy and 88.5% macro F1 on the Prioritization task within the ContraNote dataset. ^[11] Users on X, formerly Twitter, have engaged in a heated discussion regarding the incident, with some condemning the act as bad taste and others criticizing the lack of proof. ^[12]