ASOS says customer’s personal information may have been accessed through “unauthorised activity”, hours after shoppers were sent a phone alert saying the online fashion retailer had been hacked.Users of the ASOS mobile app were sent an alarming phone notification on Tuesday night, with the headline “ASOS HACKED”.”We have fully compromised the Snowflake instance. Engage with us, or we will leak it,” the message read.Snowflake is a cloud-based data platform that companies, like ASOS, use to store, process and analyse data including transactions.The push notification users of the Asos app were sent on Tuesday night. (Supplied.)Snowflake’s website said it had more than 12,000 customers around the world.ASOS has apologised to those who received the “unauthorised” push notification and advised customers not to “click or engage with the link it contained”.”We’re investigating the unauthorised activity and have taken immediate action to restrict access,” the UK-based company said in a statement.”Based on what we know at this stage, basic personal information including name and contact details may have been accessed.”However, we do not believe that any payment-card information or account passwords have been impacted.”ASOS said it was working with internal and external specialist advisors and relevant authorities to investigate the breach.ASOS’s share price slumped more than 10 per cent on the London Stock Exchange following the alert.ABC/AFP
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