10TB of mystery data and access to your calls and contacts: 'smart' coffee makers are the perfect example why…
- Do you know what data your smart devices can access?
- All kinds of devices now expect to be allowed online
- Think before you buy: does this need to be smart?
Your smart TV might not be the only smart device that's leaking your data: your coffee machine might be doing it too. A US man has gone viral after spotting his parents' Keurig coffee machine transmitting a terabyte of data in just 10 days, and here at TechRadar we've just had a Lavazza coffee machine ask for access to our contacts and call logs.
What's going on? Should I be worried about my dishwasher's Wi-Fi too?
In the case of the Keurig, the massive data transfer appears to have been because of a bug. Posting on X, IT expert Nomad said he disconnected the device because "It’s not worth keeping an IOT [Internet of Things] device connected that has...
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