Fast Company reported in a tweet that hackers delivered two "obscene and racist push alerts" around a minute apart, and that the Apple News stream had been suspended until the matter was fixed.
Fast Company, a business and media journal in the United States, reported on Tuesday evening that its website had been hacked and that it had sent "obscene and racist" notifications to Apple users via the iPhone maker's Apple News service.
Connecting news publishers' digital publishing tools to Apple News allows them to send push alerts to Apple customers who subscribe to the publisher's channel. According to Fast Company, hackers gained access to those publishing tools.
Fast Company reported in a tweet that hackers delivered two "obscene and racist push alerts" around a minute apart, and that the Apple News stream had been suspended until the matter was fixed.
"We are investigating the problem and have paused the stream and shut down FastCompany.com until we are confident that the situation has been rectified," the publication continued.
When Reuters visited Fast Company's website on Tuesday evening, the page displayed a 404 error.
Fast Company later tweeted that its content management system - software used by news outlets to publish and manage their items - had been hacked to issue the notifications.
Fast Company's channel has been deactivated, according to a tweet from Apple News.
Fast Company said it had previously had a "seemingly related" internet hack on Sunday afternoon, when similar language appeared on its home page, forcing it to shut down the site for roughly two hours.
Mansueto Ventures LLC, a publishing company, owns Fast Company.
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