ASOS confirms customer data breach after Australian leak threat
ASOS has confirmed a data breach after customers in Australia received a mobile notification threatening to leak information. The company says hackers may have accessed basic personal details, raising concerns for customers whose information was stored on the affected system.
The notification, sent at about 8pm AEST, claimed the attackers had compromised ASOS’s Snowflake instance, a cloud-based data platform. ASOS said it does not believe payment card details or passwords were affected; the article gives no number of customers confirmed to have been impacted.
- ASOS confirmed a breach involving basic personal information.
- Customers received a threat to leak data at about 8pm AEST.
- ASOS says payment details and passwords were not believed affected.
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ASOS is a British online fashion retailer that sells clothing, shoes and accessories to millions of customers worldwide. A data breach occurs when hackers gain unauthorised access to a company's computer systems and steal the personal information customers have provided.
When customer data such as names, addresses and email addresses is stolen, it can be misused for fraud or identity theft. Hackers sometimes threaten to publicly release or sell stolen data to pressure companies into paying money or to gain publicity.
When companies experience data breaches, they investigate what information was compromised and notify affected customers. This allows people to take steps to protect themselves, such as monitoring their accounts for suspicious activity.
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Originally published by Daily Mail as “Thousands of Aussies potentially caught up in data breach at popular online fashion company ASOS”.