{"id":13618,"date":"2020-07-29T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=13618"},"modified":"2024-01-30T04:01:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T12:01:10","slug":"the-garmin-hack-could-have-been-a-disastrous-large-scale-privacy-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/the-garmin-hack-could-have-been-a-disastrous-large-scale-privacy-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"The Garmin hack could have been a disastrous, large scale privacy breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garmin recently suffered a ransomware attack that crippled services for days. The ransomware attack could have been a cover for a more targeted attack on individuals around the world. This wouldn\u2019t be the first time that a more public facing hack ends up being a smokescreen for a more targeted attack. In the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-53455092\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter hack<\/a>, most people were bedazzled by the amounts of bitcoin being sent to the bitcoin addresses posted by the compromised accounts of the likes of Bill Gates, Joe Biden, and Elon Musk. The thing is, private direct messages for 36 targets and whole Twitter data dumps for 8 targets were downloaded amid all that mess and the full ramifications of the hack have yet to be felt. While there\u2019s no indication from Garmin \u2013 and in fact there is adamant denial on their end \u2013 that customers\u2019 personal information or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/how-to-hide-your-location-an-online-safety-guide\/\">location<\/a> was accessed, it very easily could have been and that mere fact should scare you greatly.<\/p>\n<p>John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab, explained the privacy risk to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/5dzkd5\/the-garmin-ransomware-hack-is-horrifying\">VICE<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFor consumers, Garmin clearly represents a repository of really detailed information. You turn on your thing when you leave your residence, and you turn it off when you get home. Sometimes, you take a jog in the middle of the day and you\u2019re trying to collect steps at work. These are all things that speak of who you are and what you do and where you live, and can all be quickly turned into identifying information.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Zach Dorfman of the Aspen Institute wrote for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/garmin-ransomware-attack-russia-f77f0ddd-8707-415d-b799-465916a2dbb2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Axios<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhile the Garmin breach may have ended without mass data leakage, the next major fitness tracking company to be hacked may not be so lucky.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>A privacy breach of location data would be disastrous<\/h2>\n<p>While individual users of Garmin products could have been targeted by the hackers, the real losers in such a privacy breach could have actually been the government. It was just a few years ago that a similar GPS based fitness company called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/real-strava-heatmap-story-not-threats-national-security-privacy-de-anonymization\/\">Strava<\/a> found its data used to identify the location of secret military bases. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/study-confirms-companies-with-poor-privacy-practices-are-more-likely-to-suffer-data-breach\/\">new study by Osana<\/a> highlights that companies with poor privacy practices enjoy an increased chance of a catastrophic data breach. Garmin\u2019s recent ransomware debacle highlights that fact. Hopefully, the increased amounts of data breaches, ransomware attacks, and other cyber hacking is finally enough to force the government to pass legislation that actually holds companies accountable for letting hackers breach the privacy of their users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garmin recently suffered a ransomware attack that crippled services for days. The ransomware attack could have been a cover for a more targeted attack on individuals around the world. This wouldn\u2019t be the first time that a more public facing hack ends up being a smokescreen for a more targeted attack. 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