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Hacker shares how they allegedly breached Fast Company’s site
2022-09-28 20:53

Fast Company took its website offline after it was hacked to display stories and push out Apple News notifications containing obscene and racist comments.

Today, the hacker shared how they allegedly breached the site.

Fast Company took the site offline for some time to fix the defacement but was hacked again on Tuesday night at around 8 PM EST. This time the hacker pushed out Fast Company notifications through Apple News that contained similar obscene and racist comments as the website defacement.

Based on the mention of "Vinny Troia" in the defacements, it is not surprising to see a Breached hacking forum member named 'Thrax' sharing information about how they allegedly hacked Fast Company's website.

The threat actor claims they were able to breach Fast Company after they discovered a WordPress instance used by the company for their website.

BleepingComputer does not normally share detailed information on how a hacker gained access to a site, but as Fast Company is already mitigating the breach, we felt this information could be of benefit to other website administrators.


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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-shares-how-they-allegedly-breached-fast-company-s-site/