A piece on Fast Company’s website before it was removed featured a note from “postpixel,” which detailed how they were able to carry out the hack and mocked efforts to safeguard the outlet’s publishing capabilities. The message states they gained access by using a password shared by numerous users, including an administrator.
The hackers also referred to a site for exchanging information gained in security breaches, where they published the identical material beginning two days earlier. According to the forum post, they are releasing thousands of staff records as well as draught postings from the database, but customer information is held in a separate database to which they do not have access.
