I just got an update from work that all Apple devices should be updated due to a common exploit that can allow a hacker to take control of them.

All of our MacBooks, iPads, iPhones and Apple TV devices are current and can be updated to patch the exploit. However, My wife and I both have the Series 3 GPS Apple Watches and it appears that Apple doesn’t provide updates for them anymore. They still work perfectly fine otherwise.

This caused me to come up with the following questions…

  1. How likely could someone remotely hack our old watches if all our other Apple devices are updated?
  2. If likely, could they use the old watches to access; passwords, iCloud, credit cards, local networks, etc…?
  3. Should I disable our current watches now and get ourselves new ones?
  • redavid@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    fwiw, while the Series 3 doesn’t get watchOS versions past 8.x, they have provided security updates for that product as recently as four months ago and i would expect that they’ll continue doing that at least a few more times. it was a Watch that Apple didn’t stop actively selling to people until late 2022.