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

Fitbit has agreed to pay a $12.25 million penalty to settle issues related to its Ionic smartwatch, which was subject to a ...

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

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

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

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

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

The Fitbit Ionic smartwatches were recalled in March ... at least 115 reports in the United States of the battery in the smartwatch overheating, with 78 reports of burn injuries in the United ...

Fitbit will pay a civil penalty of $12.25 million after it "knowingly failed to immediately report" a defect in its Ionic smartwatches that caused dozens of people to sustain burn injuries, the ...