Smartwatches vulnerable to hacking: Indian-origin researcher

Planning to buy a smartwatch? Beware as you are at an increased risk of losing your privacy as like other computer devices, smartwatches are also vulnerable to hackers, says an Indian-origin researcher

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New York: Planning to buy a smartwatch? Beware as you are at an increased risk of losing your privacy as like other computer devices, smartwatches are also vulnerable to hackers, says an Indian-origin researcher.

Using a homegrown app on a Samsung “Gear Live” smartwatch, associate professor Romit Roy Choudhury from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was able to guess what a user was typing through data "leaks" produced by the motion sensors on smartwatches.