Obscene Apple News notification first sign that Fast Company was hacked

On Tuesday, business-centric news outlet Fast Company sent two obscenity-laden push notifications to its Apple News followers.

Apple News responded by disabling the feed and acknowledging the incident on Twitter.

Fast Company also acknowledged the hack in a tweet.

Recipients of the push notification quickly took to Twitter to post screenshots of the alerts, which included a slur.

According to The Verge, there was also a post on the Fast Company website that detailed how the malicious party was able to sneak behind the company's security protocol.

The hackers then linked to a forum post where they revealed they would release thousands of employee records and draft posts from Fast Company's database. They also informed readers that customer information was stored in a different database to which they did not have access.

This all led to a situation where the Fast Company owners decided to take the entire site down. The site was pulled shortly after the incident and hacker response, and as of 6:42 AM ET, the site remains offline.

Fast Company isn't the only company to get hacked recently. In mid-September, Uber suffered a data hack.

In early September, Samsung informed customers that customer data had been stolen in July.

Update 6:43 AM ET Updated with information on Fast Company having been taken down.