Fast Company readers who subscribe to updates from the enterprise publication through Apple News have acquired a few obscene push notifications with racial slurs on Tuesday evening. The messages caught plenty of customers off guard — they honestly might induce a spit take should you weren’t anticipating them — and folks took to Twitter to post screenshots. In a press release, Fast Company has instructed Engadget that its Apple News account was hacked and was used to ship “obscene and racist” push notifications.” It added that it is investigating what occurred and that it has gone so far as shutting down the entire FastCompany.com area for now.

The publication stated:

“Fast Company’s Apple News account was hacked on Tuesday evening. Two obscene and racist push notifications were sent about a minute apart. The 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.”

Apple has addressed the state of affairs in tweet, confirming that the web site has been hacked and that it has suspended Fast Company’s account:

At the second, Fast Company’s website masses a “404 Not Found” web page. Before it was taken down, although, the dangerous actors managed to post a message detailing how they have been capable of infiltrate the publication, together with a hyperlink to a discussion board the place stolen databases are made obtainable for different customers. They stated that Fast Company had a default password for WordPress that was a lot too straightforward to crack and used it for a bunch of accounts, together with one for an administrator. From there, they have been capable of seize authentication tokens, Apple News API keys, amongst different entry info. The authentication keys, in flip, gave them the facility to seize the names, e mail addresses and IPs of a bunch of staff.

A person referred to as “Thrax” posted within the discussion board they linked on the publication’s web site, saying that they have been releasing a database containing 6,737 worker information. These embrace staff’ emails, password hashes for a few of them and unpublished drafts, amongst different info. They weren’t capable of get their palms on buyer information, although, most definitely as a result of they’re stored in a separate database.