Did your Garmin watch suddenly stop working on Thursday? You’re not alone. The company suffered an alleged ransomware attack that disabled all of their online services.
While Garmin has not officially confirmed any details, many employees made statements on social media indicating the cuts were caused by a ransomware attack. An internal Garmin note obtained by Taiwanese tech news site iThome blames problems in A virus.”
If ddetails about the alleged attack are slim for now, their of course it was bad enough to force Garmin to block all of your services, including all Internet functions on Garmin devices, the Garmin website, and even call centers, chat support, and email communications.
Is currently it is unclear if any user data was affected or even stolen, or if it was simply encrypted and held for ransomAssuming this was, in fact, a ransomware attack. How ZDNet says in its report, data theft is a common part of contemporary ransomware, that way, even if encryption is circumvented in some way, hackers still get a mountain of potentially lucrative data.
If you are concerned about losing data on your Garmin devices, all is not lost.
How to save your Garmin data
Despite the scope and severity of the incident, if ransomware attack or virus-There are ways to ensure that your training data isn’t lost before Garmin (hopefully) recovers. Garmin users have been sharing Useful solutions to get the latest workout data properly synced with third-party fitness apps like Strava or Training Peaks. These steps come from Marco Abis on Twitter:
- Connect your Garmin watch to your computer via its USB charging cable.
- Open the “Garmin” folder via Finder on Mac o File Explorer in Windows.
- Double-click “Activities” binder.
- Copy the latest .fit files to your PC.
- Then, go to your third-party fitness app website on your computer.
- Log in to your account and manually upload your .fit file from your computer (an internet search should show instructions on how to do this for the specific application you are using).
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Regarding the possible data breach, everything we can recommend is following the same data security practices we always recommend when attacks like this occur. mef results Garmin User Data I was stolen these steps will be help prevent unwanted access to your accounts and other privacy violations. AND If it happens your Garmin data was not stolen, well, You will be better protected from possible future leaks.
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