LG TVs Counted 38 Devices in One House and Logged What People Said Out Loud

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:27:24 +0200

Your LG television counted 38 devices in the house that have nothing to do with television. Phones, smartwatches, a printer, the thermostat. The set was not hacked to do it. This is the TV doing its job.

Researchers bought a brand new LG G5 OLED at a Best Buy, plugged it into the network and watched the traffic with Wireshark. What came out was an inventory of the building.

The set swept the local network and came back with at least 38 other devices. Per device it picked up the display name, the MAC address, the internal IP address and the signal strength. A 3D printer. An ESP32 development board. An air purifier. It found the internal servers, and a Samsung phone with a staff member’s username still attached, belonging to someone who had no idea any of this was being tested. A colleague’s Galaxy S23. A Note 9. An Alienware used for backup editing. And on one of the editing machines the television worked out that TeamViewer was running.

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LG TVs Counted 38 Devices in One House and Logged What People Said Out Loud