ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers

Automated excerpt

On social media, dozens of people have posted about receiving the message - confused as to what it means. Although the apparent extortion message has been issued directly to customers, it is addressed to Asos' data protection officer (DPO) and IT team. The message claims the unnamed hackers have "fully compromised the Snowflake instance". This refers to the data storage company Snowflake, whose tools are used by dozens of firms for collecting, analysing and storing data. It is not known if ASOS is a customer of Snowflake or what data, if any, is stored with the service.

Selected automatically from source text; not independently written or fact-checked. Read the original for full context.