Asos users receive mobile app notifications claiming security hack
Online fashion retailer Asos has experienced an apparent security breach after customers received threatening notifications claiming the company was hacked.
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Online fashion retailer Asos has suffered an apparent cyber security breach, according to reports by the Irish Independent, Wales Online, and C103. Thousands of customers received mobile app notifications warning that the company had been hacked. [1][2][3][7][8]
The app alerts directed users to the messaging platform Telegram and threatened to leak compromised customer data from cloud platform Snowflake. Following the alerts, Irish customers reported receiving bizarre messages, while company shares fell by more than 10 percent, as FTMQ News reported earlier. [1][7][8]
Asos is headquartered in London and has grown into a major online fashion destination emphasizing trend-driven clothing. In the first half of fiscal year 2025, the company reported a 13 percent decline in revenue to 1.3 billion pounds and a 16 percent drop in active customers, amid a turnaround effort under chief executive Jose Antonio Ramos Calamonte. [6]
Media outlets have contacted Asos regarding the incident to determine the extent of the compromised customer data, as FTMQ News reported earlier. [8]
In short
- Asos customers received app notifications claiming the online fashion retailer was hacked.
- The messages threatened to leak compromised Snowflake data on Telegram.
- Company shares fell by more than 10 percent after the notifications were sent.
Sources
Every paragraph above points to the numbered items it rests on. Read the originals here.
- [1]Online fashion retailer Asos hackedIrish Independent, 2h ago (the report this story comes from)
- [2]ASOS 'hacked' as users receive worrying messageWales Online, 2h ago
- [3]Online fashion retailer ASOS hackedC103, 2h ago
Background
- [4]The Iconic on Wikipedia
- [5]Frasers Group on Wikipedia
- [6]Asos on Grokipedia
- [7]Asos stock drops after customers receive app notification claiming hack FTMQ News, 1h ago
- [8]Asos sends threatening app notifications to customers after alleged hack FTMQ News, 1h ago
Our newsroom writes these reports with the help of software, from the 8 sources listed and nothing else, and checks them against those sources. Facts can still be wrong or move on; the originals are the record. Spotted a mistake? Write to daniel@monsterkong.com.
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