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Asos says 'unauthorised activity' and names 'may have been accessed'; the message its customers got said 'we will leak it'

On Tuesday Asos's own app sent its customers an alert saying the retailer had been hacked. Four reports from the UK, Ireland and Australia describe the same alert in very different terms. Only one carries Asos's statement that payment cards and passwords were not affected. Nobody has said how many customers' data was taken.

Asos says customer data may have been accessed after ‘unauthorised activity’
Asos says customer data may have been accessed after ‘unauthorised activity’ as published by The Independent · seen at The Independent
Anglosphere United Kingdom Ireland Australia

What happened. On Tuesday morning, customers using the Asos app received a notification titled "Asos hacked", The Independent reports. Asos later confirmed that an "unauthorised customer notification" had gone out through its app.

Four reports, two framings. The two Irish reports and the Australian one came out first. They lead on the alert. The Independent, last of the four, leads on the company's words.

Outlet Leads with Says payment cards and passwords were safe?
RTÉ News Asos's "unauthorised activity" No
TheJournal.ie "bizarre, threatening message"; "the company is hacked" No
ABC News (Australia) "Engage with us, or we will leak it" No
The Independent Asos's "unauthorised activity" Yes, as Asos's belief

Where they agree. All four carry Asos's statement that names and contact details "may have been accessed".

The Snowflake claim. The message says the attackers "full compromised the Snowflake instance". The Independent reports that Snowflake, the cloud firm named, says it has "found no compromise" of its platform.

The cost. The Independent reports that Asos shares fell by more than 10% on Tuesday.

What is NOT settled - How many customers' data, if any, was taken. No report gives a number. - Whether payment cards and passwords are safe. Only Asos says so, and it says it only "believe[s]" it. - Who sent the message, and whether the attackers hold what they claim. - Whether Asos has engaged with the attackers. No report says.

What this is about. Someone took over the system Asos uses to send alerts to customers' phones. They used it to tell those customers the company had been hacked, and to threaten to leak data.

How it got here. Asos is a British online fashion retailer listed on the London Stock Exchange. It sells mainly to young shoppers in many countries. The Independent reports that it has 16.5 million customers and that the UK brings in 49% of its revenue. It also reports that Asos is partway through a turnaround programme meant to stop falling sales and get back to profit.

The attack comes after a run of attacks on British retailers. The Independent names Marks & Spencer and Harrods among those hit over the past two years.

The message names Snowflake, a US company that stores data in the cloud for many large businesses. When a business's account with a cloud provider is broken into, the business and the provider often disagree about where the weakness was. The Independent reports that Snowflake says it has found no compromise of its own platform.

Who is involved. Asos is the company holding the data. Its customers in the UK, Ireland and Australia got the alert. The attackers are unnamed and gave only a Telegram link. The Independent reports that the National Cyber Security Centre, which is part of GCHQ, has offered Asos help. Under data protection law in the UK and the EU, a company has to report a breach of personal data to its regulator. In the UK that regulator is the Information Commissioner's Office. In Ireland it is the Data Protection Commission.

What is at stake. If the attackers have the data, customers' names and contact details could be published or used to send convincing scam messages. A security expert quoted by The Independent warns of this kind of phishing. If they do not have it, the incident is a hijacked alert system and a fall in the share price.

Where it stands. Asos says its investigation is ongoing and that its website and app are working normally.

What is being argued about

  • Whether the alert means customer data was stolen, or only that the alert system was hijacked
  • Asos's belief that payment cards and passwords were not affected, which only one report carries
  • The attackers' claim about Snowflake against Snowflake's statement that it found no compromise
  • How many customers were affected, which no report says
One alert, four ways to describe itSide by side
OutletHow it describes the eventSays payment cards and passwords were safe?
Asos is investigating "unauthorised activity" involving a third-party platformNot in the text we holdRTÉ News
"bizarre, threatening message as the company is hacked"Not in the text we holdTheJournal.ie
"Engage with us, or we will leak it" — "an alarming message"Not in the text we holdABC News (Australia)
Asos is investigating "unauthorised activity"; Snowflake "found no compromise"Yes, as what Asos believesThe Independent
Based on the published text of each report. We hold only the opening line of the reports from RTÉ, TheJournal.ie and ABC News (Australia).
Sources R RTÉ News
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RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC Asos customers told online retailer hacked in phone alert Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → What we have measured Abstraction as the actor the dispute acts and no one in it is named ×1Account taken as default the police description of the crowd as 'hostile' is carried with no other account ×1Accuracy the Slovenia entry in the country list repeats Austria's name ×1Active voice offender Donaldson is named as the one who did the abuse, in the active voice. ×1 from 2353 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Irish customers of Asos receive bizarre, threatening message as the company is hacked Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → What we have measured Accuracy of attribution The report calls the Tánaiste the Taoiseach partway through. That puts his words under another office. ×1Accusation carried without a reply a charge against a named party, no answer from it in the text held ×1Actor labelling calls the accusers 'opposition parties' when the named accuser is the deputy First Minister ×1Actor mislabelled The first line calls the accusers 'opposition parties', but the accuser quoted is the DUP deputy First Minister, who sits in the same executive ×1 from 2212 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → ABC News (Australia)
Centre estimate · not a score
ABC News (Australia) 🇦🇺AU · public broadcaster · public-service Asos app users sent 'hacked' message from online retailer Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at ABC News (Australia) → What we have measured Actor label and hedge The same man is called 'far-right' and named by his legal name. The act is hedged with 'allegedly', where the longer report states it flat. ×1A different count, stated flat one dead and 140 missing, unattributed, earliest of the four ×1Affected counted The only report to count the local people affected ×1Are the dead named one of the dead named, through a relative at the hospital ×1 from 4664 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → The Independent
Centre-left estimate · not a score
The Independent 🇬🇧UK · digital · independent Asos says customer data may have been accessed after ‘unauthorised activity’ Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Independent → What we have measured Accused party response Russia's side is reported as no comment. ×1A company statement about itself, taken as a "reveals" rather than "says", for a company's account of its own product ×1A count stated flat four crimes is given as a settled number in the headline, with no court, charge or jurisdiction attached ×1Actor named No actor named for the cut-short or for the clashes ×1 from 20215 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
Tuesday 6 October: what was published, and whenTimeline
  1. 2026-10-06— no time published Unnamed attackers An alert titled "Asos hacked" goes out through the Asos app, with a link to a Telegram accountThe Independent: Tuesday morning
  2. 2026-10-0610:01 RTÉ News publication time RTÉ News Leads with Asos's phrase "unauthorised activity"
  3. 2026-10-0610:36 TheJournal.ie publication time TheJournal.ie Headline: "bizarre, threatening message as the company is hacked"
  4. 2026-10-0612:49 ABC News (Australia) publication time ABC News (Australia) Leads with "Engage with us, or we will leak it"
  5. 2026-10-06— no time published Asos Confirms an "unauthorised customer notification" was sent through its app; does not believe payment cards or passwords were affectedThe Independent: Tuesday afternoon
  6. 2026-10-0616:22 The Independent publication time The Independent Carries Snowflake's "found no compromise" and a share fall of more than 10% more than 10%
Times are UTC, as each outlet published them. The Independent says the alert reached customers on Tuesday morning; no report gives an exact time.
Sources R RTÉ News
Centre estimate · not a score
RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC Asos customers told online retailer hacked in phone alert Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → What we have measured Abstraction as the actor the dispute acts and no one in it is named ×1Account taken as default the police description of the crowd as 'hostile' is carried with no other account ×1Accuracy the Slovenia entry in the country list repeats Austria's name ×1Active voice offender Donaldson is named as the one who did the abuse, in the active voice. ×1 from 2353 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Irish customers of Asos receive bizarre, threatening message as the company is hacked Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → What we have measured Accuracy of attribution The report calls the Tánaiste the Taoiseach partway through. That puts his words under another office. ×1Accusation carried without a reply a charge against a named party, no answer from it in the text held ×1Actor labelling calls the accusers 'opposition parties' when the named accuser is the deputy First Minister ×1Actor mislabelled The first line calls the accusers 'opposition parties', but the accuser quoted is the DUP deputy First Minister, who sits in the same executive ×1 from 2212 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → ABC News (Australia)
Centre estimate · not a score
ABC News (Australia) 🇦🇺AU · public broadcaster · public-service Asos app users sent 'hacked' message from online retailer Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at ABC News (Australia) → What we have measured Actor label and hedge The same man is called 'far-right' and named by his legal name. The act is hedged with 'allegedly', where the longer report states it flat. ×1A different count, stated flat one dead and 140 missing, unattributed, earliest of the four ×1Affected counted The only report to count the local people affected ×1Are the dead named one of the dead named, through a relative at the hospital ×1 from 4664 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → The Independent
Centre-left estimate · not a score
The Independent 🇬🇧UK · digital · independent Asos says customer data may have been accessed after ‘unauthorised activity’ Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Independent → What we have measured Accused party response Russia's side is reported as no comment. ×1A company statement about itself, taken as a "reveals" rather than "says", for a company's account of its own product ×1A count stated flat four crimes is given as a settled number in the headline, with no court, charge or jurisdiction attached ×1Actor named No actor named for the cut-short or for the clashes ×1 from 20215 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
The bias in this coverageBias

Hacked, or 'unauthorised activity'

One headline states the hack as fact. Two attribute the word 'hacked' to the message itself. The fullest report leads with the company's own phrase and carries the cloud firm's denial, and no report says how many customers' data was taken.

1 headlines stating the hack flat 2 reports attributing 'hacked' to the message 1 reports carrying the cloud firm's denial 0 reports giving a count of customers affected
Scored without the mastheads. Where the two passes differ, both are kept.
Sources The Independent
Centre-left estimate · not a score
The Independent 🇬🇧UK · digital · independent Asos says customer data may have been accessed after ‘unauthorised activity’ Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Independent → What we have measured Accused party response Russia's side is reported as no comment. ×1A company statement about itself, taken as a "reveals" rather than "says", for a company's account of its own product ×1A count stated flat four crimes is given as a settled number in the headline, with no court, charge or jurisdiction attached ×1Actor named No actor named for the cut-short or for the clashes ×1 from 20215 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Irish customers of Asos receive bizarre, threatening message as the company is hacked Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → What we have measured Accuracy of attribution The report calls the Tánaiste the Taoiseach partway through. That puts his words under another office. ×1Accusation carried without a reply a charge against a named party, no answer from it in the text held ×1Actor labelling calls the accusers 'opposition parties' when the named accuser is the deputy First Minister ×1Actor mislabelled The first line calls the accusers 'opposition parties', but the accuser quoted is the DUP deputy First Minister, who sits in the same executive ×1 from 2212 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → ABC News (Australia)
Centre estimate · not a score
ABC News (Australia) 🇦🇺AU · public broadcaster · public-service Asos app users sent 'hacked' message from online retailer Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at ABC News (Australia) → What we have measured Actor label and hedge The same man is called 'far-right' and named by his legal name. The act is hedged with 'allegedly', where the longer report states it flat. ×1A different count, stated flat one dead and 140 missing, unattributed, earliest of the four ×1Affected counted The only report to count the local people affected ×1Are the dead named one of the dead named, through a relative at the hospital ×1 from 4664 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → R RTÉ News
Centre estimate · not a score
RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC Asos customers told online retailer hacked in phone alert Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → What we have measured Abstraction as the actor the dispute acts and no one in it is named ×1Account taken as default the police description of the crowd as 'hostile' is carried with no other account ×1Accuracy the Slovenia entry in the country list repeats Austria's name ×1Active voice offender Donaldson is named as the one who did the abuse, in the active voice. ×1 from 2353 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →

Claims and verdicts

disputed The hackers fully compromised Asos's Snowflake data instance.
The claim comes from the attackers' own message, which The Independent and ABC News (Australia) quote. Snowflake told The Independent it 'found no compromise' of its platform, and Asos has said only that names and contact details 'may have been accessed'.
Checked against 3 sources:
The Independent
Centre-left estimate · not a score
The Independent 🇬🇧UK · digital · independent Asos says customer data may have been accessed after ‘unauthorised activity’ Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Independent → What we have measured Accused party response Russia's side is reported as no comment. ×1A company statement about itself, taken as a "reveals" rather than "says", for a company's account of its own product ×1A count stated flat four crimes is given as a settled number in the headline, with no court, charge or jurisdiction attached ×1Actor named No actor named for the cut-short or for the clashes ×1 from 20215 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → ABC News (Australia)
Centre estimate · not a score
ABC News (Australia) 🇦🇺AU · public broadcaster · public-service Asos app users sent 'hacked' message from online retailer Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at ABC News (Australia) → What we have measured Actor label and hedge The same man is called 'far-right' and named by his legal name. The act is hedged with 'allegedly', where the longer report states it flat. ×1A different count, stated flat one dead and 140 missing, unattributed, earliest of the four ×1Affected counted The only report to count the local people affected ×1Are the dead named one of the dead named, through a relative at the hospital ×1 from 4664 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Irish customers of Asos receive bizarre, threatening message as the company is hacked Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → What we have measured Accuracy of attribution The report calls the Tánaiste the Taoiseach partway through. That puts his words under another office. ×1Accusation carried without a reply a charge against a named party, no answer from it in the text held ×1Actor labelling calls the accusers 'opposition parties' when the named accuser is the deputy First Minister ×1Actor mislabelled The first line calls the accusers 'opposition parties', but the accuser quoted is the DUP deputy First Minister, who sits in the same executive ×1 from 2212 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
unverified Payment card details and account passwords were not affected.
This is Asos's own statement, carried by The Independent, which reports the company does not 'believe' they were affected. No independent account confirms it, and the investigation is ongoing.
Checked against 1 source:
The Independent
Centre-left estimate · not a score
The Independent 🇬🇧UK · digital · independent Asos says customer data may have been accessed after ‘unauthorised activity’ Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Independent → What we have measured Accused party response Russia's side is reported as no comment. ×1A company statement about itself, taken as a "reveals" rather than "says", for a company's account of its own product ×1A count stated flat four crimes is given as a settled number in the headline, with no court, charge or jurisdiction attached ×1Actor named No actor named for the cut-short or for the clashes ×1 from 20215 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
true A message saying Asos had been hacked was pushed to customers through the Asos app.
RTÉ, The Independent and ABC News (Australia) all report the alert reaching customers' phones. The Independent reports that Asos itself confirmed an 'unauthorised customer notification' was sent through its mobile app.
Checked against 3 sources:
R RTÉ News
Centre estimate · not a score
RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC Asos customers told online retailer hacked in phone alert Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → What we have measured Abstraction as the actor the dispute acts and no one in it is named ×1Account taken as default the police description of the crowd as 'hostile' is carried with no other account ×1Accuracy the Slovenia entry in the country list repeats Austria's name ×1Active voice offender Donaldson is named as the one who did the abuse, in the active voice. ×1 from 2353 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → The Independent
Centre-left estimate · not a score
The Independent 🇬🇧UK · digital · independent Asos says customer data may have been accessed after ‘unauthorised activity’ Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Independent → What we have measured Accused party response Russia's side is reported as no comment. ×1A company statement about itself, taken as a "reveals" rather than "says", for a company's account of its own product ×1A count stated flat four crimes is given as a settled number in the headline, with no court, charge or jurisdiction attached ×1Actor named No actor named for the cut-short or for the clashes ×1 from 20215 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → ABC News (Australia)
Centre estimate · not a score
ABC News (Australia) 🇦🇺AU · public broadcaster · public-service Asos app users sent 'hacked' message from online retailer Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at ABC News (Australia) → What we have measured Actor label and hedge The same man is called 'far-right' and named by his legal name. The act is hedged with 'allegedly', where the longer report states it flat. ×1A different count, stated flat one dead and 140 missing, unattributed, earliest of the four ×1Affected counted The only report to count the local people affected ×1Are the dead named one of the dead named, through a relative at the hospital ×1 from 4664 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →

Who wrote it

H Henry Saker-Clark The Independent
What the bias passes found in their reporting
Comparison offered Europe mentioned, with no figure on visitor numbers×1
Devolution named Scotland and Wales credited as having gone first×1
Headline choice the industry's own adjective is the headline×1
Measure chosen harm measured in share price, not in customers affected×1
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting
2 disputed3 unverified1 true
From 123 reports we hold under this byline, at The Independent. Two independent readings, each made without the masthead, a quote attached to every tag. A record, never a rating. Their full record →
C Claire Campbell ABC News (Australia)
What the bias passes found in their reporting
Whose words frame the event the attackers' threat leads, with an adjective chosen by the outlet×1
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting
1 disputed1 true
From 13 reports we hold under this byline, at ABC News (Australia). Two independent readings, each made without the masthead, a quote attached to every tag. A record, never a rating. Their full record →
The bylines on the reports this story is built from. Hover one for what our passes have measured on their reporting. · 2 reports we hold carry no byline — we do not invent one.

Coverage, outlet by outlet

The Independent
Centre-left estimate · not a score
The Independent 🇬🇧UK · digital · independent Asos says customer data may have been accessed after ‘unauthorised activity’ Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Independent → What we have measured Accused party response Russia's side is reported as no comment. ×1A company statement about itself, taken as a "reveals" rather than "says", for a company's account of its own product ×1A count stated flat four crimes is given as a settled number in the headline, with no court, charge or jurisdiction attached ×1Actor named No actor named for the cut-short or for the clashes ×1 from 20215 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — independent
The only report with Asos's full statement: it does not believe payment cards or passwords were affected. It also carries the text of the message, Snowflake's denial, the help offered by the National Cyber Security
Tech Asos says customer data may have been accessed after ‘unauthorised activity’ The fashion giant said it does not ‘believe that payment card information or account passwords, were impacted’ in the attack. Henry Saker-Clark Tuesday 06 October 2026 12:22 EDT Bookmark Bookmark popover Removed from bookmarks Close popover open image in gallery Asos customers received a notification saying the company had been hacked on Tuesday morning (PA) (PA Media) Become an Independent member to bookmark this article Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your
Whose words frame the event: the company's term leads — “Asos has said it is investigating “unauthorised activity” involving a third-party platform”
Other side quoted: the cloud firm's denial is carried — “Snowflake said it has “found no compromise” of its platform”
Measure chosen: harm measured in share price, not in customers affected — “Shares in the company fell by more than 10% on Tuesday as a result.”
Read it at The Independent → https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/national-cyber-security-centre-share…
ABC News (Australia)
Centre estimate · not a score
ABC News (Australia) 🇦🇺AU · public broadcaster · public-service Asos app users sent 'hacked' message from online retailer Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at ABC News (Australia) → What we have measured Actor label and hedge The same man is called 'far-right' and named by his legal name. The act is hedged with 'allegedly', where the longer report states it flat. ×1A different count, stated flat one dead and 140 missing, unattributed, earliest of the four ×1Affected counted The only report to count the local people affected ×1Are the dead named one of the dead named, through a relative at the hospital ×1 from 4664 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — public-service
Leads on the attackers' own words, "Engage with us, or we will leak it", and calls the message "alarming".
Asos 'investigating' phone message sent saying online retailer had been 'hacked' By Claire Campbell Topic:Cyber Crime Posted Tue 6 Oct 2026 at 11:49pmTue 6 Oct 2026 at 11:49pmTue 6 Oct 2026 at 11:49pm, updated Tue 6 Oct 2026 at 11:57pmTue 6 Oct 2026 at 11:57pmTue 6 Oct 2026 at 11:57pm Online shopping retailer Asos's customers have been sent a message that likely came from hackers. (Reuters: Hannah McKay) In short: Asos app users have been sent a phone notification claiming the online fashion retailer had been hacked. The UK company's share prices slumped 10 per cent after. What's next? Asos sa
Whose words frame the event: the attackers' threat leads, with an adjective chosen by the outlet — “"Engage with us, or we will leak it," Asos shoppers warned in an alarming message”
Read it at ABC News (Australia) → https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-06/asos-app-users-sent-hacked-messa…
T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Irish customers of Asos receive bizarre, threatening message as the company is hacked Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → What we have measured Accuracy of attribution The report calls the Tánaiste the Taoiseach partway through. That puts his words under another office. ×1Accusation carried without a reply a charge against a named party, no answer from it in the text held ×1Actor labelling calls the accusers 'opposition parties' when the named accuser is the deputy First Minister ×1Actor mislabelled The first line calls the accusers 'opposition parties', but the accuser quoted is the DUP deputy First Minister, who sits in the same executive ×1 from 2212 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → —
The only headline that states the hack as fact. It calls the message "bizarre, threatening" and frames the story around Irish customers.
An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more. Customers received a mobile app notification on Tuesday, titled “ASOS HACKED”, which directed them to a Telegram account. The message read: “Dear ASOS DPO and IT, we have full compromised the Snowflake instance. Engage with us, or we will leak it,” followed by the Telegram link. The message as received by an Irish customer this morning. The Journal The Journal The Journal has contacted the company for comment, including on how many Irish customers are affected and what information has been accessed. The alleged hack refers
Asserted versus attributed: hack stated flat in the headline, with adjectives chosen by the outlet — “Irish customers of Asos receive bizarre, threatening message as the company is hacked”
Read it at TheJournal.ie → https://www.thejournal.ie/asos-hacked-notification-7183609-Oct2026/
R RTÉ News
Centre estimate · not a score
RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC Asos customers told online retailer hacked in phone alert Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → What we have measured Abstraction as the actor the dispute acts and no one in it is named ×1Account taken as default the police description of the crowd as 'hostile' is carried with no other account ×1Accuracy the Slovenia entry in the country list repeats Austria's name ×1Active voice offender Donaldson is named as the one who did the abuse, in the active voice. ×1 from 2353 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — PUBLIC
The first of the four to be published. It leads with Asos's phrase "unauthorised activity" and does not say who sent the alert.
Asos customers told online retailer 'hacked' in phone alert Updated / Tuesday, 6 Oct 2026 11:38 Asos customers have been sent a phone alert saying the online retailer has been hacked Thousands of Asos customers have been sent a phone alert saying the retailer has been hacked. Customers received a mobile app notification today, titled "Asos hacked", which directed them to a Telegram account. The message read: "Dear ASOS DPO and IT, we have full compromised the Snowflake instance. Engage with us, or we will leak it," followed by the Telegram link. Shares in the company tumbled by more than 10% t
Who is named as acting: no sender named for the alert — “customers were sent a phone alert saying the online retailer had been hacked”
Read it at RTÉ News → https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2026/1006/1594200-asos-customers-told-…
Checked, didn’t cover
T The Irish Times
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The Irish Times 🇮🇪IE · digital · No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor framing The release is framed as a joint agreement, with no pressure mentioned ×1Actor named Names the residents as the ones who blocked the road ×1Actor named killers named as 'loyalist gunmen'; verb 'shot dead' ×1With no actor named construction no actor named for the theft or the driving in the standfirst ×1 from 1354 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → R RNZ
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RNZ 🇳🇿NZ · digital · PUBLIC No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Headline against body headline claims a 20-year decline reversed; the first line of the body reports a new low in reading ×1Headline against body headline claims a turnaround; the text carries a record low and puts it on boys ×1 from 2328 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → The Guardian
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The Guardian 🇬🇧UK · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor named Denial in the passive voice, with no one named as the person who dismissed it ×1Actor named names Israel as acting and states the death toll flat, with no source ×1Actor named Ireland named as the side that ended the conference ×1Allegation omitted the police statement is cut with an ellipsis where the other two reports carry the controlling or coercive behaviour allegation ×1 from 10510 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → C CBC News
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CBC News 🇨🇦CA · public broadcaster · public-service No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Asserted vs attributed the measure is attributed to the three governments; the territory is called occupied in the outlet's own voice ×1Attribution kept in the headline the sourcing travels with the claim into the headline ×1Figure rounded in the headline more than 600 in the headline; the body sources it to a flight-tracking site ×1How the sourcing is hedged the claim is hedged to an unnamed newspaper in both headline and body; the reporting is not held by this report ×1 from 2713 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
Silence is recorded, not inferred — each of these was read when we built this story and carried nothing on this event.
We could not read these
BBC News
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BBC News 🇬🇧UK · public broadcaster · public-service No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Dating and attribution 'It was not until Tuesday' is a judgement about delay, not a date. No other report we hold comments on how long the German finding took. ×1How hard the claim is stated Headline says the UN voted to adopt and replace; the last sentence of the report says the vote is non-binding ×1How hard the claim is stated The qualification arrives in the last sentence and is immediately overridden by an effect the report gives no source for. ×1Which figure is used States the replacement as done — the Assembly voted to replace the map — where the resolution urges states to use a different projection. ×1 from 473 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → The Daily Telegraph
Right estimate · not a score
The Daily Telegraph 🇬🇧UK · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → The Times
Centre-right estimate · not a score
The Times 🇬🇧UK · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times →
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