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Recently, American GPS and fitness company Garmin<\/a> suffered a cyber-security nightmare: a ransomware attack<\/a>. This resulted in a three-day outage between 24th and 26th July 2020. The systems seem to be coming up again now and blogger Alex Eames decided to grab his exercise data from Garmin just in case. This is done using Python and a library called garminexport<\/a>. You can read all about how to do it yourself via RasPi.TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, American GPS and fitness company Garmin suffered a cyber-security nightmare: a ransomware attack. This resulted in a three-day outage between 24th and 26th July 2020. The systems seem to be coming up again now and blogger Alex Eames decided…<\/p>\n

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