Comments on: Your Smart Watch Can Steal Your ATM PIN – IEEE Spectrum https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2016/07/06/your-smart-watch-can-steal-your-atm-pin-ieee-spectrum/ All about electronics and circuit design Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:10:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2016/07/06/your-smart-watch-can-steal-your-atm-pin-ieee-spectrum/comment-page-1/#comment-1498742 Thu, 07 Jul 2016 09:28:27 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=43570#comment-1498742 Hackers Can Use Smart Watch Movements To Reveal A Wearer’s ATM PIN
https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/07/06/2132206/hackers-can-use-smart-watch-movements-to-reveal-a-wearers-atm-pin?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot%2Fto+%28%28Title%29Slashdot+%28rdf%29%29

By gaining access to the sensors in someone’s smart watch, hackers could track the person’s hand movements at an ATM and figure out his/her pin. The hacker needn’t be anywhere near the ATM; data can be lifted from the smart watch by either a discreet wireless sniffer or by malware on the watch that sends info to a server. This is hardly the first demonstration of the security flaws in smart watches. Last year, a research group showed that a watch’s sensors can reveal keystrokes on a computer keyboard.

Friend or Foe?: Your Wearable Devices Reveal Your Personal PIN
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Friend-or-Foe-Your-Wearable-Devices-Reveal-Your-Wang-Guo/e867c843844a46d35434f01855d10d9738757037

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