Fast Company forced to shut down its ENTIRE website after racist hack

Millions of horrified Apple News users receive vulgar N-word notification: News site Fast Company is forced to shut down its ENTIRE website after hacker accessed its system and sent out racist message

  • Subscribers of the media publication took to social media shocked by the racist push-notification
  • Fast Company said hackers broke into publishing tools and sent two ‘obscene and racist push notifications’ about a minute apart
  • Apple News said in a tweet that it had disabled Fast Company’s channel, after the Tuesday night hack
  • The media publication called the hack ‘vile’ and ‘regrets that such abhorrent language’ appeared on its platform  

Millions of iPhone users were left stunned after a news site was hacked and sent an ‘obscene and racist’ message to people’s mobiles via Apple News.

The two notifications, published by business and media publication Fast Company,  came in succession and read: ‘N****** TONGUE MY ANUS. THRAX WAS HERE.’

Subscribers of the media publication took to Twitter shocked by the push-notifications. Apple News typically sends its users a collated list of stories to read.

One twitter user said: ‘Is it just me, or did anyone else get this Fast Company Apple News post notification?’

Another wrote, posting a shocked GIF: ‘Did Fast Company just get hacked????? Because the message that just came across my phone!’

News publishers using the Apple News aggregation app can connect their digital publishing tools to Apple News to send push notifications to Apple customers.

Twitter users posted their shock (pictured) after receiving two racist and vulgur push notifications from U.S. business and media publication Fast Company

Fast Company was forced to shut down its website on Tuesday evening after the site was hacked and sent ‘obscene and racist’ notifications to Apple users (pictured)

Subscribers were perplexed by the bizarre hack, some posting their confusion on twitter 

Fast Company apologized on social media saying they do not support ‘such abhorrent language’ on their platform

Fast Company is owned by publishing firm Mansueto Ventures LLC

Fast Company said hackers broke into those publishing tools.

Hackers sent two ‘obscene and racist push notifications’ about a minute apart, Fast Company said in a tweet, adding it had suspended the Apple News feed until the situation was resolved.

‘We are investigating the situation and have suspended the feed & shut down FastCompany.com until we are certain the situation has been resolved,’ the publication added.

Fast Company’s website was down and the page displayed a 404 error when viewed on Tuesday evening.

In a subsequent tweet after the shutdown, Fast Company said that its content management system – software used by news outlets to publish and manage their stories – had been hacked to send the notifications.

Apple News said in a tweet that it had disabled Fast Company’s channel.

Fast Company said it had earlier suffered an ‘apparently related’ hack of its website on Sunday afternoon, when similar language appeared on its home page, causing it to shut the site down for about two hours.

Fast Company is owned by publishing firm Mansueto Ventures LLC.

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