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ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers

11 publications, in the order they reported. The story spread over 52 hours 46 minutes. Words in highlight are ones the first headline did not use. All top stories · On NewsMarkets

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Publications over time

10:15 UTC15:01 UTC11 publications
Publications in order of reporting
#Time (UTC)After the firstPublicationHeadline
1firstHacker NewsASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers
2+6 minutesFinancial Times (paywall)Asos customers report notification warning of ‘hack’
3+1 hour 15 minutesQuartzASOS stock sinks 13% after hackers send threatening notification through its app by Cris Tolomia
4+1 hour 36 minutesThe RegisterAsos app delivers a data leak threat instead of fast fashion
5+3 hours 20 minutesThe GuardianAsos customers receive ‘hack’ notification threatening to leak data by Sarah Butler, Dan Milmo
6+7 hours 49 minutesEngadgetAsos hit by extortion hack that may have compromised some customer data
7+8 hours 23 minutesBusiness InsiderASOS customers got an ominous notification this morning. Here's what the retailer is telling users. by Ben Shimkus
8+23 hours 34 minutesBBCWhat can I do to protect myself after 'Asos hacked' message?
9+30 hours 12 minutesInc.Hackers Just Turned ASOS’s Own App Against It. Now Its Customers Face More Convincing Scams by Amaya Nichole
10+47 hours 56 minutesBloomberg (limited free articles)Hackers Tricked Asos Employee to Steal Work Account Login by Deirdre Hipwell, Ryan Gallagher
11+52 hours 46 minutesTechCrunchAsos confirms breach of customer data after hackers send rogue app notification by Zack Whittaker

Who covered it, by audience

5 of 11 publications on this story have an audience score. None of the rated publications whose audience leans Republican covered it, while 3 on the other side did.

Publications by the political lean of their audience
Audience leans Democratic (3)Mixed audience (2)Audience leans Republican (0)
None

Audience lean comes from Robertson, R. E., Jiang, S., Joseph, K., Friedland, L., Lazer, D., and Wilson, C. (2018), Auditing Partisan Audience Bias within Google Search, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2(CSCW), article 148, used with the authors' permission. The score shows which party's registered voters, on Twitter, shared an outlet's links more. It is not a rating of the outlet's own slant, and it dates from 2018. See how we use it.