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Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

Was chilling then felt the haptic feed back triggering on my watch. Looked at it and someone was scrolling through looking at my fitness and health app and trying to get my personal info. Also they where trying to get into my photos. I stared pressing the button to return home and they popped up the keyboard and typed “We are in control”. Then the stared to set alarms and checking my location. So I tried to take the watch off so it locks. Then they started to type in my password so the knew the numbers just not the order. They guessed wrong, so it locked for 1 min and then I factory rest it and unpaired it. And reset all my passwords

Apple Watch Ultra 2, watchOS 10

Posted on Feb 1, 2024 5:25 PM

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Marcus-II

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Posted on Feb 3, 2024 9:47 AM

My wife's Ultra 2 smart watch was also hacked yesterday February 2 at around 4:30pm est. Her watch has mobile service. I can't be certain but I don't believe it was accessed by wifi, or at least wifi alone. Coincidently she did receive a call just before the incident and may have been related to the gaining access to the watch. We considered the caller a spammer and was calling to provide financial aid for debt. We hung up immediately. It was crazy and very upsetting. Soon after, the watch started acting on its own and was pinging her iPhone. Once she took the watch off it started trying to log in to the watch using different codes. Fortunately it failed and was locked out. Then we struggled to figure out what to do next - mainly trying to power it down. The power button in the upper right corner did not work. Finally going for the reset worked - pressing the crown and holding in the side button until the reset option was shown. We are carefully resetting everything using other devices that do not appear to have been compromised. Any information about this event and any steps or precautions to take would be appreciated.

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Apr 8, 2024 9:59 AM in response to Alpha_Imperium

Today this happend to me too. Felt the force feedback from my Ultra2 and noticed it was taking pictures via mij iPhone! I took the watch off, saw the screenlock being activated. Then I saw seemingly random numbers being key'd in until it triggered the 1 minute time out... I tried to deactivate the watch but that turned out to b contest of who was faster (or so it looked and felt). I turned off all connections on my iPhone (WiFi, Bluetooth). I then was able to make it to the 'turn off-' slider.

After this went online, logged onto Apple ID, removed the watch en changed my password, logged off from all devices. Back to my iPhone, updated password, reestablished connectivity, turned on the watch, went to my iPhone and to the iWatch app and factory reset the watch... now it sits there, reinstalled and waiting for pairing...

I'm going to keep it that way until this apparent leak has been plugged tight!

Hope that happens soon or perhaps there's someone here who knows more about this issue?

May 23, 2024 4:25 PM in response to Alpha_Imperium

This just happened to me today!! I have the Ultra 2. I was at home when I noticed it going crazy on the health app like I was doing exercise. I tried to stop it and it wouldn’t let me. I took it off and that’s when it started going through codes to unlock. It would show “too many failed attempts” and be locked out for such a duration. I finally held down crown and side buttons to reset and removed it from my phone.

as I said, I was at home under my personal Wi-Fi. I did not receive any strange phone calls before hand or nothing happened unusual before hand. The only thing that is different is we did purchase a new smart TV that we just hooked up last night. Not sure if this is related, but I thought I would mention it.

now I’m wondering if I can reconnect my Apple Watch — will be safe??

Ingo2711

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Feb 5, 2024 2:13 AM in response to Zark88

Did you already contact the official Apple Support about that?

They are also able to diagnose your Apple Watch online.

Contact Apple for support and service - Apple Support

Feb 3, 2024 2:19 PM in response to Alpha_Imperium

Update the set 15 different alarms at different times to always repeat

Zark88

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Feb 5, 2024 2:06 AM in response to Ingo2711

I already did that

LD150

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Mar 9, 2024 10:37 AM in response to ashraj

Nope. Exploits can't happen. It's a software glitch in 10.3 or 10.3.1 that caused this behavior mainly on S9 and U2 watches.

Apr 1, 2024 8:11 AM in response to Marcus-II

Following up on my post. I was unable to confirm if the watch has OS 10.4. Once we get through the watch reset, I will confirm.

LD150

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Apr 5, 2024 3:01 AM in response to MaddMat

And it was fixed in 10.4 on March 7.

Apple release bug fixes but if people don't update then the bug is still there.

Apr 8, 2024 8:13 AM in response to Alpha_Imperium

Just had the same happen to me and now locked out of watch for 15 minutes!

Has anything else happened since you reset the watch?

Apr 8, 2024 10:00 AM in response to Alpha_Imperium

EXACTLY SAME THING just happened to me! Mine is ultra 2 as well, they even blocked my turn off button, I couldn’t press it! I just forced turning off with long press two buttons.

Apr 9, 2024 12:20 AM in response to LD150

Yes thnx LD150. Updating to Watch OS 10.4 seems to have fixed the issue. Still, I wont be using the Wallet any time soon...

Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked