MyFitnessPal is a smartphone app and website that tracks diet and exercise to determine optimal caloric intake and nutrients for the users' goals and uses gamification elements to motivate users. Users can either scan the barcodes of various food items or manually add them in the database of over five million different foods. Working in conjunction with over 50 devices and apps including Fitbit and Garmin wearable devices users can synchronize their health data to third-party devices for easier mobility. In a Consumer Reports diet rating, the free version of MyFitnessPal was rated the best free program (with 83 points) in overall satisfaction, "maintenance, calorie awareness, and food variety".
In February 2015, Under Armour acquired MyFitnessPal.
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History
In 2005, MyFitnessPal was founded by Albert Lee and Mike Lee.
On February 4, 2015, MyFitnessPal was purchased and acquired by athletic apparel maker, Under Armour, for $475 million. MyFitnessPal had 80 million users at the time.
On May 4, 2015, MyFitnessPal introduced a premium subscription tier for its applications. According to Mike Lee, the premium service allows subscribers "to make custom reports, to dig deeper into the nutrient density of the food, and to customize the measurements used to plan their meals."
On 29 March 2018, Under Armour disclosed a data breach of 150 million accounts at MyFitnessPal, with compromised data consisting of user names, the users' e-mail addresses and hashed passwords, but not credit card numbers and government identifiers (social security numbers, national identification numbers). Under Armour were notified of the breach on the week of 19-25 March, and that the leak happened sometime in February. The affected users are in the process of being notified via e-mail and in-app notifications. An official Under Armour statement stressed, that MyFitnessPal users should immediately change their passwords.
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See also
- Google Fit
- Health (Apple), also known as Apple Health
- MSN Health & Fitness
- Samsung Health
References
External links
- Official website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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