Asos users crossed the UK person been sent pop-up messages from its app that look to person been sent by hackers trying to extort the company.
Dozens of radical person told the BBC astir receiving a unusual connection from the covering and quality store's app, appearing connected their telephone screens.
"Dear ASOS DPO and IT, we person afloat compromised the Snowflake instance. Engage with us, oregon we volition leak it," the connection reads.
Asos did not instantly respond to the BBC's requests for comment.
On societal media, dozens of radical person posted astir receiving the connection - confused arsenic to what it means.
Although the evident extortion connection has been issued straight to customers, it is addressed to Asos' information extortion serviceman (DPO) and IT team.
The connection claims the unnamed hackers person "fully compromised the Snowflake instance".
It besides refers to the information retention institution Snowflake, whose fashionable tools person been utilized by dozens of firms for collecting, analysing and storing data.
It is not known if ASOS is simply a lawsuit of Snowflake oregon what data, if any, is stored with the service.
But Snowflake has been the taxable of galore precocious illustration information breaches successful caller years and has been linked to incidents targeting services including Ticketmaster and Santander.








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