Keurig Smart Coffee Maker Spills 1TB Of Data Over Home Network
When an IT professional investigated why his parents’ home Wi-Fi network had been bogging down, he found the bandwidth hog was not a computer or a compromised smart TV, but the trusty kitchen counter Keurig smart coffee maker.
Hey uh, @Keurig - what the hell is a COFFEE MACHINE uploading, let me double check...ONE FUCKING TERABYTE OF DATA IN 10 DAYS!?!?Immediately unplugging that. Getting my parents a new coffee machine. https://t.co/tTHMYC7hND— Nomad (@NomadsGalaxy) October 6, 2026
According to a post on X by cybersecurity enthusiast and IT specialist @NomadsGalaxy, his parents' Keurig K-Supreme SMART coffee maker managed to upload a massive amount of data across their Wi-Fi network in just 10 days. The data spike was captured via an Ubiquiti UniFi network dashboard screenshot by Nomad, revealing that the small appliance had logged over a whopping 1TB of upload and nearly 10GB of downloads. How in the world...
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