The coffee maker sent 28x more data than a notorious LG washer
Assessment
Cybernews headlined that the Keurig 'overtakes a notorious washing machine, which only sent 3.6GB,' noting the coffee maker produced about 28 times as much as the LG washing machine previously reported sending 3.6 GB per day. The arithmetic is broadly right (≈1,008 GB over ~10 days vs 3.6 GB/day), but the comparison is apples-to-oranges and misleads: the LG figure described recurring telemetry leaving the home over the internet, whereas the Keurig figure is a one-off transmit (TX) counter dominated by local-network traffic that, per the poster, mostly never left the LAN. Presented side by side the two numbers imply comparable privacy exposure; they do not measure the same thing. Rated weak — the figure is accurately reported, the equivalence it suggests is not supported.
Where this claim appeared
Cybernews · 2026-10-07
https://cybernews.com/security/smart-coffee-maker-cought-generating-massive-amount-of-data/What “Weak Evidence” means
Evidence exists but is thin, circumstantial, or explicitly qualified as weak by the source that published it. Shared hosting infrastructure between threat clusters is the recurring example.
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