Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic
Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic
The owner was puzzled why a clothes washer would need so much data.
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I’m curious what information a wash machine is sending could be useful to anyone?
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Well to be fair to giant spying companies, it would be fairly easy to sift through data as it comes in and only keep relevant metrics in a statistics database and throw out the rest before the day is through.
For giants like LG, Samsung, etc... it would be a drop in the bucket.
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It's still bandwidth they have to pay for, which they could have used for more useful data, like having all the TVs phone home.
It's likely been hacked by someone who guessed the default login details (when was the last time you changed the password on your washing machine), and is being used for malicious purposes such as DDoS attacks.
Hooray for IoT! The worst thing to happen to network security since... ever
The S in IoT stands for security.
There is no S.
That’s the joke
My LG washer needed a key printed on a label on the door to connect it to the network. However that isn't to say that once on the network that the network itself wasn't compromised and the washer found as an easy attack surface.
Article states is likely a reporting issue with the router.