The famous business magazine Fast Company was hacked. Hackers infiltrating the systems sent 2 notifications through the company’s Apple News stream. These notifications contained obscene and racist statements.
US-based technology giant Apple’s iOS 9 is available with “Apple NewsThe news feed system named ” was instrumental in causing a major scandal. Hackers, who carried out a cyber attack on the US-based business magazine Fast Company, sent two notifications to users via Apple News after taking over the system. obscene and racist statements place was given.
Fast Company realized that the notifications were hacked and took action. Company officials, who made a statement on the official Twitter account, stated that the notifications sent were disgusting and contrary to Fast Company’s values. In addition, fastcompany.com, the official website of the magazine, said about the attack. it is closed. During our checks, we see that the journal’s website for Turkey can be accessed, but the original website cannot be accessed.
The statement came from Apple News
There were also some statements from Apple News on the hacking of Fast Company. In the statement, the notifications sent to users “incredibly offensiveApple News officials also announced that they stopped receiving streams from Fast Company.
Here’s what Apple News explained:
“An incredibly offensive notice was sent by the hacked Fast Company. Apple News has disabled streaming.”
Here is the statement from Fast Company:
“The Fast Company Apple News account was hacked on Tuesday. Two racist and obscene notifications were sent about a minute apart. The notifications are disgusting and not in line with Fast Company values. We started investigating the situation and closed our feed and fastcompany.com until all was well. [Sonradan yapılan açıklama] To be clear, Fast Company’s content management system has been hacked.”
Hackers want bargains!
Contrary to the statement made by Fast Company; scope of cyber attack could be wider looks like. Because hackers changed some articles on the site before fastcompany.com was shut down and made statements about the attack. “postpixelAccording to the hacker using the nickname “, a password known to many employees was seized and entered into Fast Company systems. Here, a notification was sent from Apple News and a ton of data belonging to the company were captured. Postpixel, talking about the forums used by hackers, shared the data they captured with Fast Company. for a fee you can sell says.
By the way; Any data breach situation for Fast Company users out of question. Because, according to postpixel, the data of the users were in another database and they were transferred to that database with the captured password. could not be reached.