US business and media publication Fast Company has mentioned that it was going to shut down its website on Tuesday evening. It was just after the site was hacked and had sent 'obscene and racist' notifications to Apple users through the iPhone maker's Apple News service.

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Use of Apple News aggregation app helps to connect their digital publishing tools
Hackers have sent two 'obscene and racist push notifications'
Fast Company had earlier suffered an 'apparently related' hack of its website

The news publishers who have been using the Apple News aggregation app would be able to connect their digital publishing tools to Apple News in order to send push notifications to Apple customers who would subscribe to the publisher's channel. Fast Company mentioned that the hackers have got into those publishing tools.

Just after a minute Fast Company has mentioned in a tweet that it had suspended the Apple News feed till certain situation was resolved, the hackers have sent two 'obscene and racist push notifications.'

The publication has added to it that 'We were working on the situation and have suspended the feed & pack up FastCompany.com till we would be able to resolve the situation.'

In a subsequent tweet just after the shutdown, Fast Company has mentioned that its content management system where the software had utilized by news outlets to publish and manage their stories which have been hacked to send the notifications.

Fast Company had mentioned that it had earlier suffered an 'apparently related' hack of its website on Sunday afternoon, once similar language appeared on its home page which would cause it to shut the site down for around 2 hours.

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