Hackers breached internal systems at Fast Company magazine Tuesday evening, defacing the company’s main news site and sending racist push notifications through Apple News to iPhone users.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The two-sentence push notifications were attributed to Fast Company and contained the n-word and graphic language, prompting shocked users to post screenshots on Twitter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
While breaches at media companies are not unheard of, the notification was one of the biggest violations of Apple’s \u201cwalled garden\u201d in memory. There was nothing to indicate that user security was compromised beyond the upsetting wording.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cFast Company’s Apple News account was hacked on Tuesday evening. Two obscene and racist push notifications were sent about a minute apart,\u201d the magazine said by email. \u201cThe messages are vile and are not in line with the content of Fast Company. We are investigating the situation and have suspended the feed and shut down FastCompany.com until we are certain the situation has been resolved.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
An Apple spokesperson pointed to a tweet from Apple News that said: \u201cAn incredibly offensive alert was sent by Fast Company, which has been hacked. Apple News has disabled their channel.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nAn incredibly offensive alert was sent by Fast Company, which has been hacked. Apple News has disabled their channel.<\/p>\n