"Fitness Trackers Could Benefit from Better Security, Study Finds"

A team of researchers at the University of Edinburgh discovered a method, which hackers could use to interreupt messages in their transmission between fitness trackers and cloud servers. In the demonstration of this method, researchers were able to gain access personal information and generate fake activity records of users. Researchers have also demonstrated how end-to-end encryption used by these devices, could be bypassed. This article further discusses how the exploitation of vulnerabilities within wearable fitness trackers poses a threat to the security and privacy of user data, discoveries made by researchers in the study of wearable fitness tracker security, along with Fitbit’s response to this discovery. 

Phys.org reports "Fitness Trackers Could Benefit from Better Security, Study Finds"