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After hack sends ‘obscene’ Apple News notifications, Fast Company shuts website
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After hack sends ‘obscene’ Apple News notifications, Fast Company shuts website

[ad_1] Fast Company shut down its website after the site was hacked and sent "obscene" notifications to users of Apple News. 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. Hackers sent two "obscene and racist push notifications" about a minute apart, Fast Company said in a tweet, adding it h...
Apple Hit By Racist Alerts
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Apple Hit By Racist Alerts

[ad_1] A hacker who infiltrated Fast Company, sent obscene push notifications to Apple News users’ home screens. A hacker who infiltrated Fast Company, a publication owned by Morningstar Inc.'s billionaire founder Joe Mansueto, sent obscene push notifications to Apple News users' home screens on Tuesday night, sparking a shutdown of the magazine's website. The US-based business magazine, published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, said on Twitter that “two obscene and racist push notifications were sent about a minute apart” after its content management system was hacked on Tuesday evening. Apple Inc. 's news aggregation service, which curates stories from media providers, had 125 million monthly active users as of early 2020. I...