Fast Company’s Apple News website currently displays a statement from the business confirming that it was hacked on Sunday afternoon, followed by another intrusion on Tuesday night that let threat actors to send bigoted notifications to smartphones via Apple News.
In a press release issued last night, the company claimed that “the statements are repulsive and are not by the contents and culture of Fast Company. We have suspended FastCompany.com while we look into the matter and will not reopen it until it is resolved.”
As soon as individuals on Twitter noticed the offensive Apple News notifications, the company disabled the Fast Company channel on the news network.
Data breach tactics
The website’s webpage started to load up with articles headlined “Hacked by Vinny Troia. [redacted] tongue my [redacted]. Thrax was here. ” on Sunday afternoon, which was the first indication that Fast Company had been compromised.
In their ongoing dispute with security analyst Vinny Troia, members of the breached hacking group and the now-defunct RaidForums regularly deface websites and carry out attacks that they attribute to the researcher. Fast Company took the website offline for a while to address the defacement, but on Tuesday at around 8 PM EST, another attack occurred.
Hackers claim that after discovering that Fast Company was using WordPress for their website, they were able to compromise the company. The HTTP basic
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