10 days ago
Asos says customer data accessed by hacker posing as trusted contact
What's happening
SignalsMonitor is following this as a markets story. The Guardian Business, ABC Australia, Yorkshire Post, and STV News are the outlets attached to this story. The first report grouped here was at 6 Oct 2026, 09:26 UTC. 11 material updates are listed in the timeline. The headline in use is “Asos says customer data accessed by hacker posing as trusted contact”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Experts say breadth of data accessed could help attackers devise “highly convincing” phishing scams Asos hackers gained access to millions of customers’ recent search histories as well as names, addresses and phone numbers, the online fashion retailer has revealed. Terms typed in by customers such as “glamorous wide fit” and…
Story timeline
Reports grouped into this story, earliest first. Exact repeats from the same outlet are collapsed.
- First reported by STV News
ASOS users receive ‘hacked’ notification warning bosses of ‘leak’
- New development reported by STV News
- New development reported by Yorkshire Post
'Asos hacked': Thousands of customers receive shock phone alert
- Picked up by ABC Australia
Customers' personal details may have been accessed in hack, Asos says
- New development reported by ABC Australia
- Picked up by Yorkshire Post
Asos says customer data may have been accessed after ‘unauthorised activity’
- Picked up by The Guardian Business
Asos says customer data accessed by hacker posing as trusted contact
- New development reported by The Guardian Business
Asos customers’ names, search histories and contact details accessed in hack, says retailer
- Picked up by The Guardian Business
Asos says hacker accessed customers’ names, contact details and search histories
- severity changed
The assessed event severity changed.
- Picked up by The Guardian Business
Asos says customers’ names, contact details and search histories hacked
Same story, different outlets
4 headlinesEach line is that outlet's headline. The article stays on the publisher's site.
- The GuardianAsos says customers’ names, contact details and search histories hacked
- ABCCustomers' personal details may have been accessed in hack, Asos says
- Yorkshire Post'Asos hacked': Thousands of customers receive shock phone alert
- STV NewsASOS users receive ‘hacked’ notification warning bosses of ‘leak’