Fast Company Shuts Website After Hack Sends ‘Obscene’ Apple News Notifications

Fast Company Shuts Website After Hack Sends ‘Obscene’ Apple News Notifications
A hooded man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. Kacper Pempel/Illustration/Reuters
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U.S. business and media publication Fast Company said it shut down its website on Tuesday evening after the site was hacked and sent “obscene and racist” notifications to Apple users via the iPhone maker’s Apple News service.

News publishers using the Apple News aggregation app can connect their digital publishing tools to Apple News to send push notifications to Apple customers who subscribe to the publisher’s channel. Fast Company said hackers broke into those publishing tools.