A popular fitness app provided a convenient map for anyone interested in shadowing government personnel who exercised in secret locations, including intelligence agencies, military bases and airfields ...

Fitness tracking app Polar Flow allowed anyone with relatively little effort to work out the names, home addresses and daily movement routes of thousands of military and intelligence officials who ...

The fitness app Polar Flow exposes the whereabouts of some of its high-profile users, including “spies” and those with sensitive positions in the military. Fitness device maker Polar Flow suspended an ...

Fitness tracking app Polar Flow has been broadcasting the whereabouts of personnel at military bases and intelligence services across the globe, an investigation has revealed. The app, developed by ...

Who would have thought getting in shape could be so risky. Fitness apps help you track your runs, calories burned, and maybe even your heart rate. If you happen to be using a Polar device and its ...

What just happened? Another fitness company was found to be indirectly revealing the locations of personnel working for military and intelligence services. Finnish firm Polar has now suspended its ...

An investigation by the Dutch news site De Correspondent revealed it is possible to find workout information recorded by Polar Flow and use this to potentially identify the names of employees who work ...

Finnish-based fitness tracking app Polar has temporarily disabled its global activity map feature after last week journalists used it to track down the real-world identities of military and ...

Polar's fitness app had security flaws exposing the location data of its users, according to a joint investigation from De Correspondent and Bellingcat. This included the location details of soldiers ...

The joint investigation found that someone could use the data from Polar’s map to locate sensitive military sites, as well as enough information to locate a user’s name and address. User activity was ...