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Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by throwaway290 »

summarity wrote: post #68
rockbruno wrote: post #42

One of the posters posted a video of the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6dazJk9AtU It seems like the ghost touch issue, and not actual hacking.

I have the same issue. It’s clearly a bug and maybe both the funniest and most serious one I’ve ever had to deal with. In my case I was waking up to my watch using itself. It changed contacts, added locations in maps, placed and cancelled two calls to emergency services and more. I then made the mistake of taking it off my wrist. Now the screen is locked and the watch will continue to enter wrong PINs, locking itself…

Unpair and reset from the phone.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by herbst »

throwaway290 wrote: post #71
summarity wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have the same issue. It’s clearly a bug and maybe both the funniest and most serious one I’ve ever had to deal with. In my case I was waking up to my watch using itself. It changed contacts, added locations in maps, placed and cancelled two calls to emergency services and more. I then made the mistake of taking it off my wrist. Now the screen is locked and the watch will continue to enter wrong PINs, locking itself…

Unpair and reset from the phone.

Or throw the device before it wastes more public resources by ghosting dialing public services.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by rpy »

tinycoder25 wrote: post #29

I wonder why most of the comments take it very casually and say may be issue with digitizer/ghost touch. Had it been any other OEM, this would have been such a big issue with anecdotes of why people trust apple products.

If you were genuinely remotely hacking a smartwatch, you’d be executing background processes to exfiltrate data entirely invisible to the user, not doing some bizarre remote desktop thing randomly tapping around on apps. The claim doesn’t pass the sniff test irrespective of the manufacturer.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by BSDobelix »

This whole thread is filled with terrible advice and wannabe Snow-Crash writers, plus people who think "hackers" are scrolling through your files just to get to your fitness files.

I am kind of shocked, that state of mind was acceptable around 95-2000, but not a quarter millennium later.

I for sure live i a bubble, but are people really like that?

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by konart »

MichaelMug wrote: post #32

I don't know what the catalyst for this was, but a lot of 20 years olds and younger seem to use the word hacked so casually. I read it all the time, "my insta was hacked", etc. I would really like to know if hacking is as common as it is reported rather than a successful phishing campaign, a simple issue of forgotten password or getting locked out of email, account ban for rule violation, or something else entirely u…

At some point the same happend in computer games. Suddently every "cheater" or "abuser" became a "hacker".

Different times.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by herbst »

BSDobelix wrote: post #75

This whole thread is filled with terrible advice and wannabe Snow-Crash writers, plus people who think "hackers" are scrolling through your files just to get to your fitness files. I am kind of shocked, that state of mind was acceptable around 95-2000, but not a quarter millennium later. I for sure live i a bubble, but are people really like that?

The apple forum really is a special place. Stuck in time, weirdly toxic and surprisingly unhelpful.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by Towaway69 »

MichaelMug wrote: post #32

I don't know what the catalyst for this was, but a lot of 20 years olds and younger seem to use the word hacked so casually. I read it all the time, "my insta was hacked", etc. I would really like to know if hacking is as common as it is reported rather than a successful phishing campaign, a simple issue of forgotten password or getting locked out of email, account ban for rule violation, or something else entirely u…

Perhaps there is more to hack? At least when I was 20 years old, the only thing to be hacked was the dial-phone, a paper phonebook and perhaps a fax. Social media didn't exist.

Having so many accounts where some stuff might (or might not) be important, folks get very sensitive to being "hacked". Or in other words, having a stranger break in and rummage through their underwear.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by eviks »

MichaelMug wrote: post #32

I don't know what the catalyst for this was, but a lot of 20 years olds and younger seem to use the word hacked so casually. I read it all the time, "my insta was hacked", etc. I would really like to know if hacking is as common as it is reported rather than a successful phishing campaign, a simple issue of forgotten password or getting locked out of email, account ban for rule violation, or something else entirely u…

phishing campaign is a method of hacking

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

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Post by herbst »

rudedogg wrote: post #19

I think the OP in the linked thread is a complete hoax, and all the commenters are experiencing the random phantom/ghost input issues, googling it and hitting that thread. If you read carefully they all sound like their watch is receiving random inputs.

So not hoax then but scared users that need to help understand their device and it's honestly very bad bugs?

Not sure it does matter at this point, these people paid $800 and now feel their device is heavily insecure, they need help and a explanation from official side they understand.

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