After a hacker started sending out "obscene" Apple News alerts, Fast Company had to take down their website.
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Fast Company reported in a tweet that hackers had sent two "obscene and racist push alerts" around a minute apart, and that the company had temporarily disabled its Apple News feed until the problem was fixed.
Fast Company, a business and media outlet in the United States, announced Tuesday night that it had shut down its website after being hacked and "obscene and bigoted" notifications were delivered to Apple customers through Apple's Apple News service.
Connecting a news outlet's digital publishing capabilities with Apple News enables the outlet to notify subscribers of new posts directly from the Apple News app. A hacker group gained access to such publishing tools, according to Fast Company.
Fast Company reported in a tweet that hackers had sent two "obscene and racist push alerts" within a minute of each other, and that the company had temporarily disabled its Apple News feed until the problem was fixed.
FastCompany.com will be offline permanently until the issue has been rectified, and the publisher has paused the feed while they investigate.
On Tuesday night, Reuters tried visiting the Fast Company website and saw a 404 error page instead.
Fast Company tweeted after the suspension that their content management system (CMS), which is used by news organisations to publish and maintain their stories, had been hacked and responsible for sending out the alerts.
By way of a tweet, Apple News announced that it has removed Fast Company's TV channel.
Fast Company reported a "seemingly related" attack of its website on Sunday afternoon, when identical material appeared on the homepage and forced the site to be taken offline for roughly two hours.
Mansueto Ventures LLC, a publishing company, is the proprietor of Fast Company.
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