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

Fitbit has settled with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) over a long-standing defect that caused some ...

Fitbit received numerous reports of the Ionic smartwatches overheating while being worn by consumers, causing some consumers ...

The device was recalled in 2022 after Fitbit received 115 reports of overheating and 78 reports of burn injuries.

Fitbit failed to report overheating incidents involving its Ionic watches in which customers suffered serious burns, safety ...

After consumer complaints of overheating batteries, the company did not immediately report the defect with its Ionic smartwatches, according to a settlement with the U.S. government.

Fitbit will pay $12.25 million after reaching a settlement with the Consumer Product Safety Commission for not reporting a ...

The popular brand of step counting and exercise tracking devices is being forced to recalibrate how they do things.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced on Friday, January 23, that Fitbit, LLC, headquartered in San ...

Fitbit should have notified the CPSC about how dangerous the Ionic's batteries were. This week, they agreed to pay a ...

More than two years after recalling about 1.7 million Ionic smartwatches sold globally, Google-owned Fitbit will pay a $12.2 million penalty for failing to alert consumers that the products can ...