ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers
Dozens of people appear to have received a strange message from the clothing and beauty store's app.
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"If confirmed, this is a deeply serious attack because the hackers appear to have done something particularly brazen: turned ASOS's own app into their ransom note."
— Charlotte Wilson , Executive
"Sending a push notification to ASOS's app users would require access to the company's notification system, which is separate from the Snowflake data platform the attackers claim to have compromised."
— Dan Bird , Executive
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Dozens of people appear to have received a strange message from the clothing and beauty store's app.
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