Yesterday, Tuesday night, users of the news service AppleNews received two push notifications with “obscene and racist” language. The company confirmed that the offensive alerts were the result of a hack to the portal Fast Companyone of its content providers.
Through a short message in TwitterApple News noted the incident and indicated that it would deactivate the channel for the financial news publication.
“An incredibly offensive alert was sent by Fast Company, which has been hacked. Apple News has deactivated their channel,” wrote the company run by Tim Cook.
This is how the company that sent offensive notifications to Apple News responded
For its part, Fast Company explained that its access account to Apple’s information service suffered a computer attack. They stressed that the outrageous alerts do not represent the company.
“Fast Company’s content management system was hacked Tuesday night. As a result, two notifications were sent push lewd and racist to our followers on Apple News within a minute of each other. The messages are vile and not in line with the content and spirit of Fast Company,” the company says in a statement. release.
They explained that they are investigating the situation and in the meantime they took down their website. They also said this cyberattack could be related to one they suffered the previous Sunday “when similar language appeared on the site’s home page.” At that time they deactivated the portal and restored it two hours later, but this time it is not known when they will enable it again.
“Fast Company regrets that such abhorrent language has appeared on our platforms and in Apple News. We apologize to anyone who saw it before it was removed,” the statement concludes.
So far, none of the companies has clarified whether they have already identified the person responsible for the hack. In the screenshots shared by users on social networks, you can read “Thrax was here”. However, it is not known if it is the name of a hacker or an organization because, unlike hacker groups such as Lap$ushere it is not clear who is attributing the attack.
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