Fast Company's website shuts after Apple News feed hacked

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Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s Apple News, had also disabled their channel with the Fast Company, the news aggregator app said in a tweet.

Hackers sent two “obscene and racist push notifications” about a minute apart, Fast Company said, adding, it had suspended the Apple News feed until the situation was resolved.

“We are investigating the situation and have suspended the feed & shutdown FastCompany.com until we are certain the situation has been resolved,” the publication said its tweet.

Fast Company’s website was down, with the page displaying a 404 error.

Fast Company is owned by publishing firm Mansueto Ventures LLC.