Fast Company Back Online After Lewd, Racist Hack Attack Forces 8-Day Shutdown
thewrap.comdown last week, putting vile and racist language where news headlines are supposed to go. FastCompany immediately shut down its website to investigate … then the clock started ticking.“Eight days.
That’s how long FastCompany.com was offline after we were targeted in a cyberattack, first on the afternoon of Sunday, September 25, and again on the evening of Tuesday, September 27,” the zine’s Editor in Chief Brendan Vaughan said in a blog post Wednesday. “On that first Sunday, the attack hit our content management system (CMS), the software we use to create the site, and hijacked our home page, replacing every headline with an obscene and racist message that proudly claimed credit for the intrusion.
Two days later, a similar message was sent to our followers in Apple News, twice in rapid succession.”The company says no customer or advertiser information was disclosed, and that it’s fortified against future attacks.
But eight days is a long time for a major publication to go dark.“That didn’t stop us from doing our jobs,” Vaughn wrote. “After processing the shock of the attacks, we channeled that shock into action.
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