US business and media publication Fast Company said it shut down its website on Tuesday evening after the site was hacked and “vulgar and racist” notifications were sent to Apple users via the iPhone maker’s Apple News service.
News publishers using the Apple News integration app can connect their digital publishing tools to Apple News to send push notifications to Apple customers subscribed to the publisher’s channels. Fast Company said hackers accessed those publishing tools.
The hackers sent two “obscene and racist push notifications” a minute apart, the fast company said in a tweet, adding that Apple News Feed was suspended until the situation was resolved.
“We are investigating the situation and have suspended the feed and shut down FastCompany.com until we are certain the situation is resolved,” the release added.
Fast Company’s website was down and the page showed a 404 error when seen by Reuters on Tuesday evening.
In a tweet after the shutdown, the fast company said its content management system — software used by news outlets to publish and manage their stories — had been hacked to send alerts.
Apple News said in a tweet that it has disabled Fast Company’s channel.
The fast company said its website had suffered an “apparently related” hack earlier on Sunday afternoon, when similar language appeared on its home page, causing the site to shut down for about two hours.
Fast Company is owned by publishing company Mansueto Ventures LLC.
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