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this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2026
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Bugs happen. Here's an LG coffee maker uploading 1TB in 10 days: https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/it-pro-says-his-parents-keurig-smart-coffee-maker-sent-1tb-of-data-over-their-wi-fi-in-10-days-it-saturated-an-access-point-on-its-own-but-he-says-most-of-the-traffic-never-left-the-home-network
So not upload. Sounds like it could be local network tracking as has been demonstrated with LG TVs, repeatedly and continuously querying local network for information. I guess maybe with a bug in there if it's that much data. Still, unclear what happened there and whether or what degree it was a bug.
All coverage of that incident says it was mostly LAN traffic. It was a bug in the network stack.
Not a bug, lol.