Your watch still works. Use it - to upload the file if on mac, download android file transfer and just pull the .fit file off.
Your watch still works. Use it - to upload the file if on mac, download android file transfer and just pull the .fit file off.
lwood wrote:
What if you have a virtual "race" this weekend??
What kind of question is this. Do you not understand what a virtual race is or how a gps watch works?
Rex Hudler wrote:
lwood wrote:
What if you have a virtual "race" this weekend??
What kind of question is this. Do you not understand what a virtual race is or how a gps watch works?
Yes to both of those questions. Thankfully I've never participated in one. So how does the data get from your watch to the results if the system is down?
lwood wrote:
Rex Hudler wrote:
What kind of question is this. Do you not understand what a virtual race is or how a gps watch works?
Yes to both of those questions. Thankfully I've never participated in one. So how does the data get from your watch to the results if the system is down?
Your watch measures your run. You can then report that to the race organizers. If they need official confirmation, you can upload the file from your watch to a third-party site.
Rex Hudler wrote:
lwood wrote:
Yes to both of those questions. Thankfully I've never participated in one. So how does the data get from your watch to the results if the system is down?
Your watch measures your run. You can then report that to the race organizers. If they need official confirmation, you can upload the file from your watch to a third-party site.
Seems like there would be a lot of people giving fake results?
lwood wrote:
Rex Hudler wrote:
Your watch measures your run. You can then report that to the race organizers. If they need official confirmation, you can upload the file from your watch to a third-party site.
Seems like there would be a lot of people giving fake results?
Eh, if anyone actually pays for a virtual race, I don't think they can complain.
lwood wrote:
Yes to both of those questions. Thankfully I've never participated in one. So how does the data get from your watch to the results if the system is down?
Watches save data as a .fit file. You can record the race as you normally would, then plug your watch into your computer and manually find the .fit file, then upload to strava or site of choice.
UmbrellaMan wrote:
https://www.ithome.com.tw/news/139004According to this Chinese website, Garmin was hacked.
Extremely poor move by Garmin to stay quiet during all of this. They are just saying that their servers are down when people's personal information could be vulnerable. If Garmin wasn't hacked they should at least come out and say that the data breach information is not true.
I am very disappointed and may make the switch to Coros
They reported the outage on their Twitter account six hours before you posted this. How is that *staying quiet" about this?
Bullet the Blue Sky wrote:
Not saying it's not a serious issue, but what personal information would you be concerned about that is on the Garmin site? Password maybe - if you use the same password on another site?
Types of info that can be collected from Garmin depending on the nature of your running:
Where you live
Where you work
Where you've traveled for work
Who you run with
Pictures of you and of others whom you've uploaded
Height
Weight
General fitness level
Your username/passwords of 3rd party sites that are linked from Garmin Connect
Most of that is pretty innocuous, but once someone combines it with data from social media/political donations/religious organizations/real estate purchases/background checks/financial/health/minute-by-minute location pinged from your weather app, etc. it adds a few more pieces to a puzzle that begins to form a crystal clear picture of who we are and our daily lives.
If they were hacked and data was compromised then by law they have to make that news public. The damage is reputational to them of course.
Their head office is near Kansas City.
There is no federal oversight, however, there are common laws agreed to across all states that are implemented per state and territory.
Breach Notifications:
All 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands have implemented rules requiring notification to individuals when their personal information (PI) has been compromised.
Kansas has a minimum threshold of 1000 people affected:
Kansas
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In 2012 Kansas passed a statute regarding brief notifications, and how any entity collecting consumer information must do so in the event of a breach.
If the breach affects 1,000 consumers or more, it is necessary to contact all consumer reporting agencies across the US of “the timing, distribution, and content” of the notifications.
I am not sure if Garmin stores all data in another state or country, the reporting laws are different and this one doesn't apply.
You can see if you want where your profile or info is on what sites that have been breached at the website: Have I been PWND.
Not if, but when.
Wet Coast wrote:
Their head office is near Kansas City.
Kansas City is in Missouri...
Geography FTW wrote:
Wet Coast wrote:
Their head office is near Kansas City.
Kansas City is in Missouri...
Their office is in Olathe, Kansas.
FTW
Just an FYI. There is also a Kansas City, Kansas. Same metro area. See previous poster's Olathe, KS reply bout their headquarters. Again, in the KC metro area. Just pointing this out.
If it's ransomware the data will have been encrypted and locked up.
In that scenario it won't have been a breach and therefore won't need to report.
Coros is a shady company, they probably did it.
My phone says there is an update for the Garmin Connect app available. Given their entire infrastructure is down I find that unlikely. No way am I installing the update.
RunningOtaku wrote:
Bullet the Blue Sky wrote:
Not saying it's not a serious issue, but what personal information would you be concerned about that is on the Garmin site? Password maybe - if you use the same password on another site?
Your username/passwords of 3rd party sites that are linked from Garmin Connect
No, they don't have your passwords for 3rd party apps. The 3rd party apps initiate the connection and generally have a token they use to pull your data.
Let’s sue
dreamland wrote:
I have no idea what my Garmin password is any longer. My computer magically opens it for me
Maybe these Chinese hacker dudes can help you out there.
I finally got mine manually uploaded to Strava today. Guess I'll have to become real familiar with that process until Garmin either solves the problem or pays the ransom?