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ASOS breach traced to social engineering
Customer names and contact details were taken. About 138,800 people were affected.
- Organisation
- ASOS
- Disclosed
- 6 October 2026
- Affected
- 138,828
- Data
- Names, contact details, search data
- Attacker
- Xuanye Group
- Severity
- major
- Region
- UK
- Source
- eSecurity Planet ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “ASOS breach traced to social engineering”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 6 Oct 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2026-10-06-asos-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: eSecurity Planet, https://www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/news-asos-cyberattack-employee-credentials-customer-data-breach/.
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