The civil penalty follows 115 reports of overheating, including injuries ranging from second to third-degree burns.

The company recalled 1.7 million Ionic watches in 2022 after reports of overheating and two third-degree burns.

There were 78 reports of burn injuries in the U.S., starting in 2018, 2019 and 2020. The Fitbit watch company has been fined $12.25 million in the United States, after allegedly failing to report a de ...

Fitbit says they are rolling out an update to the affected watches (again, not every Sense or Versa 3) that will limit its battery ca ...

The Fitbit watch company has been fined $12.25 million in the United States, after allegedly failing to report a defect to its product. Back in March 2022, Fitbit, Health Canada and the U.S. Consumer ...

On Thursday, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that Fitbit had agreed to pay a $12.25 million civil penalty over its delay in reporting that the lithium-ion battery in the ...

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced this week that Fitbit has agreed to pay a $12.25 million fine for failure to report serious burn hazard with Ionic smartwatches.

Though Fitbit stopped producing the Ionic smartwatches in 2020 ... that there were at least 115 reports of the smartwatch's battery overheating in the U.S., causing burn injuries to 78 Americans.

The deal finds the Google-owned fitness company paying a $12.25 million penalty for the issues surrounding its Ionic smartwatch. The issue dates back to 2018, continuing on into 2020. Fitbit ...

one for overheating with its Ionic watches and another (two months after) for the Sense and Versa. Google is reportedly calling attention to a potentially dangerous situation regarding two of Fitbit's ...