After a hacker sent "obscene" Apple News notifications, the website for Fast Company was taken down.
Hackers delivered two "obscene and racist push alerts" approximately one minute apart, according to a tweet by Fast Company, which added that it has suspended the Apple News stream until the issue was rectified.
image sourceThe website of the American business and media journal Fast Company was hacked on Tuesday evening, prompting the company to take the site offline. The notifications were described as being "obscene and bigoted," and they were distributed to Apple customers through the Apple News service.
Connecting a news publisher's digital publishing tools to Apple News enables the publisher to send push alerts to Apple customers who have subscribed to the publisher's channel. The news publisher must be utilising the Apple News aggregation app. According to Fast Company, hackers breached the security of those publishing tools.
Hackers delivered two "obscene and racist push alerts" approximately one minute apart, according to a tweet from Fast Company. The company said that it has suspended the Apple News stream until the issue was rectified.
According to the publication, "We are investigating the problem and have paused the feed and shut down FastCompany.com until we are convinced that the situation has been rectified."
When Reuters attempted to access the website of Fast Company on Tuesday evening, they were met with a 404 error message instead of the site's homepage.
After the website was taken offline, Fast Company sent out a following tweet in which it explained that its content management system, which is software utilised by news organisations to publish and maintain their stories, had been hacked in order to send out the notifications.
The channel for Fast Company was removed from Apple News, according to a tweet from the company.
On Sunday afternoon, Fast Company's website was hacked in what the company described as a "seemingly connected" incident. As a result, the company was forced to take the website offline for almost two hours after similar language appeared on the homepage.
Publishing company Mansueto Ventures LLC is the owner of the business publication Fast Company.

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